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June 2016

June 15, 2016

Don’t Rule By Tricks and Fear (King Lear)

Good luck if an organization is run by a man who wants the treats of...

June 14, 2016

Deliver Us From the Pursuit of Deadly Evil

Deliver us from evil the Lord's prayer says, but often we rush to evil. Tragic...

June 13, 2016

Love Is Destroyed by the Lust for Control (Venus and Adonis)

Love does not exist where there is a lust for control. If the insights of...

June 12, 2016

The Toxic Fruit of Revenge (Titus Andronicus)

Humans do terrible things and the desire for vengeance is powerful.* Christians are commanded to...

June 11, 2016

Zootopia and the Need for Reality (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)

Disney created a clever world for the film Zootopia where non-human animals have learned to live in...

June 08, 2016

Killing Socrates (On Phaedo)

Athens had quite a few people who wanted Socrates dead. He went around asking tough...

June 06, 2016

America It’s All Fun, Until It Isn’t (Henry IV, Part 2)

The breakout character can destroy a television show. The most painful part of the original Star...

June 05, 2016

Trusting with Knowledge: How to Form a Real Community

At one point in my life if anyone mentioned "building community," I would run away....

June 04, 2016

Keeping Going While There is Still Light

When I was a boy, my brother and I would be sent to do a...

June 02, 2016

Loving Rich Men, Needing Patrons (Timon of Athens)

Great Solomon, son of David, was a patron to artists because he was wise and...

June 01, 2016

I am in Love and that is Simply Grand (Two Gentlemen)

Being in love is on defense. If you are in love, you are aware that...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Faster, Stronger, Better. . . Meh (The Six Million Dollar Man)

We lost our television in odd circumstances. Daniel and I liked going to church and...

May 29, 2016

Winning Is Temporary (King John)

Nothing is dumber than giving up morals for one victory, because victory is never forever....

May 28, 2016

Nobody Is or Should Be the Natural

Some movies make me stop and watch them, even if I have seen them, maybe...

May 26, 2016

No Place for Kingmakers (Henry VI, Part 3)

A sure way to spot a dysfunctional church, business, or organization is to look for...

May 25, 2016

Use our Liberty to Create Hope

Discouragement is always clever, but hope is always wise. Why? We live in God's cosmos...

May 23, 2016

No Place Else to Go: A Jolly or a Deadly Monday

When there is no place else to go, that can be a bad thing, unless...

May 18, 2016

Measure for Measure: Aspire to be Good, but We Are Not (Jesus, Shakespeare)

Jesus was a very smart and wise man and when we have a chance to...

May 17, 2016

Once You Have a Mess, It Just Gets Messier (Richard III)

When the leaders are bad, things get to be a mess, and when things are...

May 15, 2016

Have a Galilee Moment: Jesus is Here as He Always Has Been

Father Richard preached up a storm today . . . and reminded us all (Saint...

May 10, 2016

Don’t Condemn Percy: Problems Often Aren’t, Especially People

One joy of moving into a new office is seeing old stuff in new ways....

May 09, 2016

Having Done All Stand: A Message from Dad

It is good to have great parents. . . Today I got up to find...

May 08, 2016

Want to survive tough times? Buy Ketchup.

As always, we live in difficult times. The fact that times are always the best...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

Our Duty: Find our Place, Do Our Duty (Shakespeare’s Coriolanus)

Nothing is worse than when the rich oppress the poor except, perhaps, when the poor...

April 20, 2016

Be Content, Know My Place, Avoid a Lust for Power (Macbeth)

God exalts the humble and Satan tempts us with the kingdoms of this world. American...

April 15, 2016

It is April 15: It can be a good day.

Today your taxes are due. Yesterday in 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Last night in...

April 13, 2016

Be Calm, But Don’t Carry On: Three Rules for the Gentleperson on the RMS Titanic of Life

Life, like the RMS Titanic, is quite wonderful, though not equally so for all of...

April 11, 2016

Head and Heart: Blend Both and then Use Your Hands to Act

Whether you watch the movie Metropolis or read Republic or simply sit with the Psalms, recall that...

April 05, 2016

The Best Time to Be Alive Is Now

Jesus is Lord. That is true today. It was true the day they crucified the...

April 01, 2016

Misunderstood, but not by God

Motives are mixed because in people that' s what motives do: they confuse themselves and...