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July 2020

July 31, 2020

Whit Had Great Value to God (Thoughts from Dad)

When stuck in life, a basic policy has been: “ask Dad, he knows.” He told...

July 29, 2020

Deeds Not Just Words: End Our Discrimination Against God’s Children

Americans too often worry more about what we call people than how we treat them....

July 26, 2020

Long Pants (Happy Birthday Dad)

Seventy-three years ago one little boy was disappointed. He got a very nice suit of...

July 24, 2020

Global Anglicanism Finds a Voice

Imagine a fan boy so full of admiration that he takes your name and moves...

July 14, 2020

Justice for 9/11?

The nation has not healed from the attacks on 9/11, because an act of war...

July 11, 2020

Keeping our Brothers and Sisters

Moral men have a duty to help their neighbors, but nobody has an obligation to...

July 07, 2020

C.S. Lewis and A.E. Taylor: Literature, Philosophy, Plato, and the Story (Part 2/2)

“The story will save us. . .”so Plato ends Republic written when his society was dying....

July 04, 2020

The Hopeful Theodicy: God takes on all our pain. . .

When the God-man wept before the tomb of Lazarus, He gave us hope. The God-man...

July 03, 2020

Contend

In the first chapter of Jude, Christians are commanded to contend for the faith. There...

July 02, 2020

The Value of Unchanging Goodness (Happy Birthday Brother Daniel)

We could use some steadiness just now. Good qualities often are found in balance: do...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

On the Dog Nessie and Recollecting Reality

The dog Nessie asks me every day: "What larks today?" She anticipates joy and so...

June 27, 2020

Culture War?

Nobody likes the culture war, not even the culture warriors. Being "against" anything not associated...

June 26, 2020

Communism, Mucha, Beauty

In one day, I saw a museum of Communism and a museum of Alphonse Mucha....

June 25, 2020

College must change: the argument for a commuter student OR a different kind of residential experience.

The most powerful person in a college student’s life is often the resident advisor: ill...

June 23, 2020

What is a Father? Someone who is good the week after Father’s Day!

My Mother and I used to laugh at greeting cards that began: what is a...

June 22, 2020

Teddy and Nana

When I was a boy, a person in my dad’s first church, better off than...

June 20, 2020

Ever Green: Plant a Tree

We have two new olive trees planted. One to remember an excellent person who died...

June 16, 2020

The First Graduation: One-on-One, No Usury, The Future Is Now

The educational establishment is not listening. Debt increases. Parents and students keep paying for exploited...

June 15, 2020

Nessie versus Athena (without Ninjas)

Nessie versus Athena? Nessie wins, more or less, though Athena maintains her dignity. This is...

June 14, 2020

Ballet, Education, and Bad Philosophy

The students rushed off to see the grave of a classical Russian novelist and our...

June 12, 2020

Christ through the Holy Spirit Proceeding from the Father Makes All-Wise Fishermen (For the Season of Pentecost)

When times are fearful, we can pray "Lord send the fire, that Pentecostal power!" Pentecost...

June 11, 2020

Exhaustion, Moral and Otherwise

Some things we cannot control. Other people decide differently than they should or things just...

June 08, 2020

Losing, Winning, Losing, Won

On Winning and Losing Losing is no virtue, but then neither is winning. The Soviets...

June 05, 2020

Oliver Twist (More Summer Reading, With Questions to Ask, A Novel on Trouble Times)

If you wish to keep thinking systems cannot be unjust, do not read Dickens. If...

June 02, 2020

The Bravest American President?

Some do theater, Grant won battles. George McClellan could write about courage, but could not...

June 01, 2020

A Long Day’s Journey. . .and David Suchet

In Praise of David Suchet David Suchet is the greatest actor I have ever seen...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Common Prayer for the Ages

Today I will pray, still online, with my parish and the prayers will be familiar. Our...

May 30, 2020

A Virtue of “Just” Praying

What should we do: to end potential war between India and China? to secure justice...

May 27, 2020

A Small Thought on Marie Antoinette in Less Difficult Times

Marie Antoinette. A great many people have an opinion two hundred and fifty years later....

May 26, 2020

“Silver and Gold, I Have?” The Prosperity Gospel Defended?

"Silver and Gold I have. . ." so said the televangelist to applause so overwhelming,...