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September 2020

September 30, 2020

We Need Not Be Afraid

“Fear not!” The angel said these words to Mary, because real angels always must begin...

September 27, 2020

Wandering Desire and the Twelfth Night

Some never enjoy the good things of God and His creation. Others wallow in the...

September 26, 2020

Disqualified? the ACLU doesn’t care? No Religious Test!

For a Black American that went to a certain church, some very bright students, they...

September 24, 2020

Death Has No Final Victory

When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then...

September 22, 2020

God’s Wisdom is Greater Even than That

For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human...

September 21, 2020

Loyalty and Faith

Proverbs 16:6 Guilt is wiped out by loyalty and faith, and the fear of the...

September 20, 2020

Marriage Songs

A few years ago, I put together a play list of songs that reminded me...

September 19, 2020

In a word. . .accept one another . . .

In a word, accept one another as Christ accepted us, to the Glory of God.*...

September 18, 2020

Stop. Think about it. Don’t write it.

There is breaking news. What do you think? What do I think? Let’s all say...

September 17, 2020

Courage with Prudence

I was once asked to go to a country that had just shaken free from...

September 16, 2020

Speak 3 Times, Each Time Louder: Weird Rules, Deeper Meaning

Watch enough television, and sadly I have watched enough television, and you observe a rule:...

September 15, 2020

Lest We Forget: the Courage of Children, the Bravery of Adults

Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, Carol Denise McNair. Courage was required to go...

September 13, 2020

Same Song, Different Peformance

Can we make tomorrow, a common day, a beautiful day? Truth will help us, a...

September 12, 2020

It is a small thing that last dance, but a good thing.

The last dance with my daughter, before she was married, was good. I resist some...

September 11, 2020

Wisdom, Art, Math, Science. . . Oh My!

There is something good about school that we must never lose. Take one week in...

September 09, 2020

Weird Purity Culture Kills

Purity is beautiful. As the ancients understood purity, a way of living tested over thousands...

September 08, 2020

Making a Legendary Life

As a little boy, the older folks would sit and pass down to us the...

September 07, 2020

The My Little Pony Toys Wait: a Problem With Memory and a Speculation

We have a box of "My Little Pony" toys that wait for guests. Two of...

September 06, 2020

To Feel Again, Say Your Name

One hundred and twenty years ago this week, Galveston was wiped clean by the ocean....

September 05, 2020

Precisely Suited In Character (On a Wedding)

Tomorrow a daughter will marry. She chose wisely, reflecting a young life spent reading good...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

Mind Churn

Then beside their ships the other nobles of the grand Achaean army slept the whole...

August 25, 2020

Proper Weirdness!

Weirdness can be the sign of eccentric genius or it can be harmless madness. The...

August 19, 2020

Based on the World Around Me and In Me

Let's live based on the world around and in us. Fantasy, even high fantasy, is...

August 18, 2020

Old Vices Don’t Improve With Age

The new morality is too often the old immorality tricked out in pseudo-scientific language or...

August 15, 2020

Assuming about God?

"Assuming" when I was a kid led to somebody, usually the fifth grade know-it-all, telling...

August 13, 2020

You Might Find God, but not devils. . . (The Divine Hidden, but Reasonable. The Diabolical Obvious, but Irrational)

Imagine for a moment that God exists. There is a perfectly good being. He loves...

August 09, 2020

The Goodness is Fundamental

We are awash in goodness, truth, and beauty. All we need do is raise our...

August 08, 2020

Another Most Important Election of My Lifetime

If any given Super Bowl were the most important game ever, they would not play...

August 06, 2020

Satan in the Times

Satan’s existence is suggested by human experience and the Bible and is confirmed by reading...

August 01, 2020

Moral Medicine

Morality uses medicine, but so does immorality. When I was a little boy, I knew...