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September 2015

September 06, 2015

Here, but Not Yet

Jesus taught us to pray: "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as...

September 05, 2015

What else can I do?

As a student, I was taught to read and began to see beauty in texts....

September 04, 2015

Standing in the Need of Prayer

I need prayer, but then I always need prayer. All the living need prayer and...

September 03, 2015

Being Depressed Isn’t the Same as Being Sad: Living in the Joy of the Lord

When you mean to help somebody, then it is good to know what ails them...

September 02, 2015

The Twilight Struggle: And Yet Miracles Happen

We do not serve Genie Jesus, despite War Room's claims. Who is Genie Jesus? He...

September 01, 2015

The Twilight Struggle: Lies We Believe

We are telling people horrible lies, peddling false hopes in the name of Jesus. Jesus...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Genie Jesus and the War Room Problem

No matter what I say, somebody is going to be mad because people take their...

August 30, 2015

The Twilight Struggle: Depression is a Hell of Thing

When I have faced depression, especially as the result of difficult circumstances, the dullness and...

August 29, 2015

Depression: the Twilight Struggle

For me, sorrow is a low level hum at the back of all I do....

August 28, 2015

Images: You Can’t Live Without Them

A school like The Saint Constantine School makes art, music, poetry, and literature central to...

August 27, 2015

Blessed Assurance: My Woo Hoo Moment

"Sometimes,"an older friend said, "life gets tedious." My problems may be first world problems, ISIS...

August 26, 2015

Divine Standard Time

Jesus saw a fig tree and He cursed it. He did not do this because...

August 24, 2015

Dreaming the Wonderful Dream: The Saint Constantine School

I left one job and turned down my dream job as president of a great...

August 23, 2015

The Way School Should Be: Joyful

Charles Dickens was no saint, but he knew what a saint looked like. In his...

August 21, 2015

Back to School: The Leap from the Lion’s Head

If there was ever a movie about the education of the soul, Indiana Jones and the...

August 20, 2015

Back to School: Only In the Footsteps of God

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a motion picture that deals with the formation of...

August 19, 2015

Back to School: Only the Penitent Man Shall Pass

Everything you need to know about education can be found in Indiana Jones and the Last...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Joy on the Other Side

Dante understood that some of us are not saints like Beatrice or Lucy. We must...

July 25, 2015

Waking Up in a Dark Wood

I woke up after doom had come and I had nobody to blame for it...

July 24, 2015

Pray for all sinners

What is sin? At the very least, sin is anything that breaks or mars the...

July 23, 2015

What Love Isn’t: Romeo and Juliet

"I love Rosalind!" "Oh. Wait! I love Juliet!" And so starts the great tragedy Romeo and...

July 22, 2015

Beautiful Thoughts

The world is so connected that every action we take has implications that cannot be...

July 21, 2015

Find the Good and Think about It

A simple way to know a religious grifter is to look for fear mongering. The...

July 19, 2015

Love and Knowledge: Paul and His Beloved

Smart people who can be unloving while supposedly loving people live in the false charity...

July 18, 2015

The Wonder of It All: Paul and Plato

Saturating in a great book is good, in two great books better. Laches is one of...

July 15, 2015

Living in a Bubble

Chik-Fil-A be warned. Standing in the Legion of Honor, a stunning collection of art in...

July 14, 2015

Bernie Sanders on Education: Give the Grifters More

Socialism has this going for it: it sees a problem and it proposes a very...

July 13, 2015

Talk Less

On the way to the airport, I realized that driving with Lewis and Hope made...

July 12, 2015

A Comedy Tonight

All my children will be legal adults by the start of next month. This is...

July 10, 2015

Trump: He Has the Right Foes

My Daddy taught me that having the right enemies is a good thing. If Vlad...