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May 2017

May 12, 2017

A Great Change, a Graduation

My mother was at the School Feast on the last day of classes. It was...

May 10, 2017

Don’t Be Pumaman

The funniest single bit of video I have seen in the last year was MST3K: Pumaman. Somehow...

May 09, 2017

Listen to Hope!

Listen to Hope. If you are married to Hope, as I am, then that is...

May 07, 2017

Will you be made whole?

If you went to a hospital, you would assume the patients there want to get...

May 06, 2017

Two Cheers for Michael Shermer . . .

Recently, I had a chance to dialog with skeptic Michael Shermer. I hope it does...

May 05, 2017

Words Always Fail (A Bit) and the Life Giving Cycle of Love

When I want to say "I love you," I often give a gift. Why? Saying...

May 04, 2017

What We Must Forget (Dante and Purgatory)

Dante did not love Beatrice, not the way he believed he loved Beatrice. For a romantic...

May 03, 2017

The Battle Is the Lord’s

Dear Bob Sorge, A long time ago you wrote a song that said this: An...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Because It Is True . . .

On a day like today when I am with the perfectly-named Hope, thinking about God...

April 28, 2017

Learning from Old Elizabeth: to New Orleans

A Prophet to America: Old Elizabeth In 1863, Old Elizabeth (the pen name she chose)...

April 26, 2017

The End of the Ring: Wagner, Ferris Wheels, and God

The gods we create can be destroyed, but there is no hope in mankind either....

April 23, 2017

Doubt! Or Not

The news was so good, he could not stand to believe it. If he did,...

April 21, 2017

They were almost great . . . Five Remarkable Writers (Fifth Post of Bright Week)

Most college students I meet have not heard of Agatha Christie or Ray Bradbury. This...

April 18, 2017

Things My Adult Children Say I Should Not Say

A joy of having adult children is knowing the many, many things that I should...

April 17, 2017

Bright Week!

Lent is over, as is Super Lent (what my kids, when they were kids, called...

April 16, 2017

Truly, He is Risen and is Reigning

Truth matters and the truth is this: Jesus died and now is alive. The body that went...

April 15, 2017

A Hell of a Day: Holy Saturday

Today is the day that Jesus went to hell, the place of the dead, with...

April 14, 2017

Today is a Good Friday

"Jesus looks asleep." The first time I saw Christ on the Cross on an Eastern...

April 13, 2017

Eating and Drinking with Your Friends: On Holy Thursday

One of the last things Jesus did before death was to eat and drink with...

April 12, 2017

The Problem is Lazarus

A cartoon character doesn't fall until he looks down. Evidently, cartoon physics requires knowing something is...

April 11, 2017

In the Sure Hope . . .

To see a son help carry his mother's casket out of the church is hard....

April 09, 2017

God: Think Great

God is great. How great? Think great and then imagine greater. There is no possible...

April 07, 2017

A Prayer, A Meditation, a Discourse

Prayer as Necessary to the Dialectic Today just for once I would like to pray...

April 02, 2017

Never, Ever, Every Hire This Man: On George B. McClellan

If you are hiring a leader, avoid one type more than (almost) any other....

April 01, 2017

On Moral Advice: The Particular Need Not be Universal

The Saint Constantine School is starting a shooting team, but I will not be a...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

On Killing Whales and Americans or Shut Up and Just Kill the Whale (3/3)

Moby Dick is one of the great American books and a good place to start...

March 24, 2017

Today I Go to the Circus

Right after I write this, I will go the circus and I hope to learn...

March 23, 2017

Our Wills, Our Freedom, and Timelessness (Consolation of Philosophy Summed Up)

We can be happy, though not jolly, regardless of circumstances. Jolliness, a cheerful feeling, is...

March 21, 2017

The Consolation of Philosophy (II/III)

We need to know ourselves to do philosophy, that is the lesson of Socrates. We...

March 17, 2017

Decadence and Innocence

Today I sat between innocence and decadence. On my right, Hope and I could hear...