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October 2018

October 12, 2018

A Better Soul Over Time (Republic Book X)

Education is not getting a credential, but making the soul more like it should be...

October 11, 2018

Disrupting Disruption (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 8/8)

We are distracting ourselves, not to death, that would be more interesting, but to shallowness....

October 08, 2018

Disruption of the Mind (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 5/8)

We are too busy to have deep views about anything for which we are not...

October 05, 2018

Visions of Truth (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 4/8)

Times are tough for everyone, but what if: Our faith has the resources to overcome...

October 04, 2018

Reality so Grim, Buffering Seems Good (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 3/8)

Alan Noble has written a book to give us hope in distracted times. Too much...

October 03, 2018

Save Me From Silence (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 2/8)

Sometimes, oftentimes, I dread being alone and in silence, because silence reminds me of my...

October 02, 2018

Distracting ourselves to tedium (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 1/8)

A good teacher begins class with a great question, one that makes us think and...

October 01, 2018

The Mercy of Near Sightedness

I am very nearsighted, but nobody noticed for a bit. Obviously I could not tell my...

September 2018

September 30, 2018

Our Baby Born to God

I love all my children, living and dead. Each day I pray for one of...

September 27, 2018

Mom’s Wisdom

Mom is wise. Maybe all sons think this is true, yet it is true: Mom...

September 24, 2018

Did Jesus Go to Glastonbury?

Did Jesus go to Glastonbury? Not for the music festival, but to the Roman Era...

September 23, 2018

Did Jesus Go To England? An Attack on Classicism by a Classicist (William Blake and Longing)

William Blake, half mad half damned, wrote beauty that lifted his soul from Hell to...

September 19, 2018

Humility Just Now (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 13/12 Because Miscounting)

The meek will inherit the Earth, even if they do not often get elected to...

September 17, 2018

How We Need Kindness Just Now Even Without Plato (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 12/12)

Everyone God knows we need some kindness not...

September 16, 2018

The Persuasive Power of Patience (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 11/12)

Patience is powerful and persuasive. Prince Albert grew in power under his wife Queen Victoria...

September 15, 2018

Keep Calm and Carry On: Diligence (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 10/12)

Narnia. Middle Earth. Prydain. Over Sea and Under Stone. I loved them all as a...

September 14, 2018

Chastity, God Help Us: Ethan and Jane (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 9/12)

Jane Eyre and my wife taught me chastity in my twenties. God knows I wish I...

September 13, 2018

Love and Draperies (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 8/12)

A home is to HGTV as a lady-wife is to a photoshop of a woman....

September 11, 2018

Piercing Faith (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 6/12)

Faith is the divine virtue expanding our vision of everything. For those of us who...

September 09, 2018

The Just City (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 4/12)

Justice with Mercy When I was a boy I saw a slogan that stuck with...

September 08, 2018

Temperance Stirred Up Not Shaken in the Great Gatsby (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 3/12)

Temperance, that great virtue, amounted to not drinking alcohol to the progressives and that is...

September 03, 2018

Hope is the thing with feathers. . .

Do not be weary. Hope is here and asks nothing of us. These are not tiring...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Prophecy Fulfilled Today in the Book of DANIEL! (Lightly Revised)

1 In the second year of the administration of Jerry II of Lynchburg came the Leader...

August 29, 2018

A lesson from Homer: Thus they tended the funeral of John McCain

The late John McCain had a father and grandfather who both became admirals in the...

August 28, 2018

Inherited Friends: Find them!

We can inherit height, eye color, and some propensities from our ancestors, but we might...

August 22, 2018

Day of Glory: It’s Coming

Never smile at a crocodile and never fight with a man experiencing the Day of...

August 21, 2018

Hector Us O Lord We Pray

Hector us, O Lord, we pray. And no, we do not wish God to bully...

August 17, 2018

If We Love Justice, then We Will Return to the Discussion Again and Again (Last Day of Summer in the Republic 70)

I just read of a leader who is tired of hearing about justice issues. “Didn’t...

August 16, 2018

Good for the Soul (Summer in the Republic 69)

“Mmm-mmm good.” That’s what Campbell’s Soups were: good. At least ads told kids this back...

August 15, 2018

The Charm of Edutainment (Summer in the Republic 68)

Imagine a college administrator so obsessed with the “college experience” that he was willing to...