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June 2021

June 02, 2021

Both Voices: Hearing All of Humanity

God created humankind male and female. Each sex has a complementary role to the other and have...

May 2021

May 30, 2021

Likely Wrong: Biblical Egalitarianism Regarding Some Religious Roles is Implausible

Sometimes the angels are not in the details, but the general structure. Advocacy scholarship can...

May 29, 2021

Even a Dog Gets a Treat: Man Needs Bread, but not Just Bread Alone

Our dog got a treat, not just a treat, but a treat from Rochester.* Hope,...

May 24, 2021

A Very Odd Way to Get the Key for the Singing, but Sing

Sixty years ago when time to go home from the chemical factory, you needed a...

May 22, 2021

Beauty Educates

Beauty creates love, and love desires consent. Beauty is the mother of the dialectic: the...

May 21, 2021

But the Controversy the Controversialist Said!

An old classic rhetorical juke of the heretic, Arius was first master, is to claim...

May 20, 2021

Greetings UFO Pilgrims: Sorry about the Mess

There are, as we already knew, unidentified flying objects. These objects are unidentified and fly....

May 19, 2021

The Evil Blue Light or the Nattering Nabob of Negativity

Never trust the person best known for what he is against. There was, family legend...

May 18, 2021

The Word Becomes Flesh

What is the beloved? What does Plato mean when he speaks of the known unknown,...

May 17, 2021

The Stories I Hear Behind My Papaw’s Chair

Happy Birthday Papaw. If I put the big, brown, corduroy pillow on the floor behind...

May 16, 2021

The True Light, Do Not Expect So Little

Absolute romance finds a Beloved worth absolute commitment. The good God needs nothing, so when God...

May 15, 2021

The Master Teacher Reasons and Reveals Beauty

On the road to Emmaus, the newly risen Lord Jesus came to two of His...

May 14, 2021

And also . . . (A Mistake in Reading Older Books)

Write a great book and you are still likely to throw out a dumb aside comment. ...

May 12, 2021

The Lover Lives by Faith

We should not believe unreasonable things. Few disagree, certainly not the God of the Bible....

May 11, 2021

A Beautiful Web of Belief

Hope works in our faculty nursery at the School and College. She has seen our...

May 10, 2021

Growing Old with Beauty. . .

I have grown old talking about beauty. When I began, I was a relatively young...

May 09, 2021

Hearing (Also about Mom)

I try listening when I cannot see. "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word...

May 08, 2021

The Everlasting Self (Or Walking Nessie in Rain and Thinking about It)

The Everlasting Self Comes in from a downpour Shaking water in every direction- A collaborative...

May 06, 2021

Beware the Iconoclast: Icons are not Competency Tests

Hating ancient icons, deep truths, ends in ugly idols. Jingoism is the idol that mocks...

May 05, 2021

K-16: an idea whose time has come?

It has been done: on May 5 brave pastors and donors made K-16 happen. What...

May 03, 2021

The Absolute Necessity of Jollification Today: Party Better

The good God commands jollification. The world, the flesh, and devils resist a genuine good...

May 02, 2021

The Sure and Present Hope (Pascha: The Son Rises in the East!)

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast. ....

May 01, 2021

Share Less (Midnight to Pascha!)

I still have the Bible that Mom and Dad got me one Easter. That this...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Humility of Holy Friday (Pascha is Near, Feels Far Away)

Today He who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon the Cross. He...

April 29, 2021

Washing, Eating, Drinking, Glittering with Glory and Seeing Divinity (Pascha Almost Here!)

We do what we must, take joy when we can, knowing an eternal holiday is...

April 28, 2021

O Unction, O Balm for the Soul! (On the Way to Pascha)

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which...

April 27, 2021

The Bridegroom and the Bride: the making of a Father and a Mother (Passion for Pascha!)

Easter, Pascha, makes our life normal. Death is defeated by life. We are given a...

April 26, 2021

God Brought Good:- Behold the Bridegroom Comes! (Preparing for Pascha)

Love is so mighty, so foundational to reality, that hatred is overwhelmed in the sea...

April 25, 2021

Father God and the Humble King (The Palm Sunday of the Faithful)

Celebrate a good Father who always rejoices in his children. Today recollect how history should...

April 24, 2021

The Light on the Throne: Ending a Patriarch 4/4 (Heading to Holy Week)

“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.” Before the New...