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February 2018

February 28, 2018

The Need for “The Elders” (a poem by Mari Evans)

The great victory of the Civil Rights movement was not given to the African American...

February 27, 2018

Vindicate God

When I was a boy, I was entirely unable to make crafts. To hand me...

February 26, 2018

This Love for God

Yet there is a light I love, and a food, and a kind of embrace...

February 22, 2018

Hope and Billy Graham

She never met Billy Graham, though everyone of our generation knew his name. She is...

February 20, 2018

Hasty Argumentation

Yes, there are replies one can use to put a brake on this hasty argumentativeness,...

February 18, 2018

The Shape of Undergrad Education: A Mistake?

We created a model of undergraduate education that may not work well. In fact, is...

February 17, 2018

The African Empire that Whipped the Racist Colonizers in the Name of Christ

Myth is powerful and every people needs tales to picture what could have been or...

February 16, 2018

Knowing without Fully Knowing

Gregory of Nazianzus wrote, Conviction you see of a thing’s existence is quite different from...

February 12, 2018

It’s a February 12 Kind of Day: Lincoln, Liberty, Leadership, and a New School

Do something good today, something positive, that will set captives free. That’s a February 12...

February 11, 2018

Manners: Better Than Barbarism, Sort Of

“Manners” were annoying to me as a kid. This will strike nobody who went to...

February 10, 2018

Christian Victor: See You Soon, Uncle Charlie

Today I said “until next time” to a good man who served his nation and...

February 09, 2018

Remember the Great African King Kaleb of Axum

King Kaleb of Axum is a hero we need: a man willing to defend his...

February 08, 2018

Bilbo the Wraith Remains

Look too long into the shadows and we might despair. Instead, I choose mostly to...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Psalms of Praise (A Movement Primer)- A Board Book for Baby Believers!

The reality of God, like the reality of air, water, and ideas, hits us from...

January 27, 2018

The Marks of a Bad Education (Carter G. Woodson)

Imagine education designed to put you in chains. Plato described it (Republic VII) and Carter G....

January 25, 2018

You Can Call Him Al

Students could call him Al, he insisted, the fabulously learned man who led text based...

January 22, 2018

Too Much Smack, Too Little Talk

Used to be that the people you knew, that you heard the most, were the...

January 20, 2018

Euthymius is Great!

Some church leaders are wonderful, but intimidating. Some might want lunch with Saint Augustine, but...

January 19, 2018

Read Anne Spencer: God’s Flowering Beauty Overcomes Human Ugliness

Beauty is needful always, but just now deeply. God help us, but we need the...

January 18, 2018

The Mark of the Church

His name was Clement: student of the apostles. He saw a good thing go bad,...

January 15, 2018

Don’t Go Up to Look Down

4 A little learning did not help me, but when forced in graduate school to...

January 09, 2018

Thank You, Al Michaels: I do believe in miracles.

I have listened to Al Michaels for a long time, he is very good at...

January 06, 2018

A Year of Hope or Positivity

This is a good year for hope: the virtue that aspires to more. Hope is a...

January 05, 2018

Twelfth Day (Twelfth Day of Christmas): Coming to an Epiphany

Our revels are coming to an end, but this is good. Shakespeare owns our Twelfth...

January 04, 2018

Houston Christmas (Eleventh Day of Christmas)

Houston is the American city of the twenty-first century. Forget what you think you know....

January 03, 2018

Global Christmas (Tenth Day of Christmas)

Christians are everywhere and everywhere we are there is Christmas. I shan't try to "do"...

January 02, 2018

Rossetti Pierces My Heart (Ninth Day of Christmas)

She wrote a poem that became a carol, but do not limit Christina Rossetti. She...

January 01, 2018

Making a Home for the Holidays

We need to celebrate the full Twelve Days of Christmas, because Jesus was born of...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

Time Lord (Seventh Day of Christmas)

Christmas is the eternal coming into the temporal. Time passes, but Christmas endures unmovable forever....

December 30, 2017

Jesus is the Reason for the Continuation of the Season

We need to celebrate the full Twelve Days of Christmas, because Jesus was born of...