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2021-04-14T22:42:17-04:00

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So Cold, So Calm, So Holy a Night (RMS Titanic Day)

Last updated on: April 14, 2021 at 10:42 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The false normalcy harkens a change, a certain doom, but the winds of the Spirit are coming to rescue the faithful. The sea was very calm, like a pond, like glass, so the eyewitnesses say, the night the great ship went down. RMS Titanic went down into the depths of The Atlantic Ocean in pacific and frigid sea. The sinking at the time seemed a portent and if any event ever was an outer sign of great changes in the... Read more

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2021-04-18T17:36:20-04:00

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Horrible Idea: On “On Critical Race Theory”

Last updated on: April 18, 2021 at 5:36 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

There is a horrible idea regarding “critical race theory.” This bad idea has nothing to do with the merits or demerits of critical race theory. What is that bad, no good, very terrible idea? We should not criticize an idea nobody holds. We should not spike the football in a baseball game. Our description of “critical race theory”should be what the person holding “critical race theory” affirms or believes. If not, then our criticism is attacking something, but not “critical race theory” as... Read more

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2021-04-17T23:30:48-04:00

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Get Sheep or Goats and Live in a City

Last updated on: April 17, 2021 at 11:30 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

I am tempted by the thought that if a college is not urban with a farm and stock animals, then the eduction is not fit for purpose. This is not (quite) as quirky as it sounds! I have experience and an argument to back up this thought. Here is the experience. Our College and School have sheep at long last. Heidi and Gretchen have joined us and are, slowly, learning to frolic as good sheep should. Stock animals are not toys or... Read more

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2021-04-11T23:04:51-04:00

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Isn’t she outside? (A Nessie the Wonder Dog Story)

Last updated on: April 11, 2021 at 11:04 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Hope is inevitably coming. What joy that will be! Nessie the Wonder Dog likes having all her people present. This is possible since two have moved out, though she remembers. Nothing is better for the Wonder Dog than when the missing people return for a visit. Hope and I can only agree! If Hope is gone, the central figure in her life, then she becomes restless. Any sound outside, and our urban-by-choice neighborhood has many sounds, and Nessie will run... Read more

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2021-04-10T23:22:07-04:00

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The Baby Cheeps, the Old Cat, and the Courage of a Mom

Last updated on: April 10, 2021 at 11:22 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The doves have hatched and we have a window box full of cheeps. Each morning I pass Momma Dove sitting over them: an image of many things to me in a mind getting ready to teach college philosophy. As she feeds, protects, and serves the little cheeps, she is an icon of the good God. One might find a morning devotional there, but I shall refrain. One could wax scientistic like a PBS documentary and tell of the cycle of... Read more

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2021-04-10T23:33:24-04:00

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Love Unites: Find What You are For (A Reflection from The Greek Bicentennial)

Last updated on: April 10, 2021 at 11:33 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Love endures, perfect love casts out all fear. Since the Kingdom is motivated by love, we endure best when we love best. Why then do we ever center our work on anything other than love? We may agree that a Christian should begin with love, but until the beloved Kingdom is fully realized, there are things that must be opposed. Love demands that we push against anything that would harm other people. We must oppose materialism, the flesh, and devils first... Read more

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2021-04-09T07:43:46-04:00

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Courage: Find An Ally and Fight (Greek Bicentennial)

Last updated on: April 9, 2021 at 7:43 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

We need courage just now. Courage, including physical courage, is not the greatest virtue, but makes doing greater virtues possible. Most acts of courage are not dramatic: most martyrdom is bloodless. We die to self. The courageous death brings true life, unless courage has been confused with masochism! And yet the outer sign of physical courage can be a notable image of the inner reality. Celebrate the unsung heroes: those freedom fighters that live and die in service to liberty for... Read more

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2021-04-07T19:23:17-04:00

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Folk Art is Art (West Virginia and the Greek Bicentennial)

Last updated on: April 7, 2021 at 7:23 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Missing all the trends is not missing culture. This mistake, confusing the spirit of a particular age with God’s plan in history, is easy to make. Sometimes in history a group of people are cut off from information in the rest of the world by tyrants. Other places are described as “backwaters” and so the stories they might tell are ignored or viewed as “primitive.” Those West Virginia hills saw many generations of both sides of my family be born, live,... Read more

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2021-04-08T22:03:03-04:00

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Beware the Clever Lies of the Functionary (Greek Bicentennial)

Last updated on: April 8, 2021 at 10:03 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

God save us from the role of functionary to the Empire: condemning what the powerful condemn as we try to side with history instead of Truth. This year of the bicentennial of Greek independence may we emulate the courageous and avoid the cowardly. Patriarch Gregory worked for peace, condemned hopeless warfare, but was willing to die for his people. He would not live by lies knowing it was better to die than to tell a lie. His martyrdom, hanged in the... Read more

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2021-04-05T09:57:06-04:00

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Dance with Zalongo (Greek Bicentennial)

Last updated on: April 5, 2021 at 9:57 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

The last dance led to death, but this martyrdom to joy evermore and memory eternal. If you cannot win, then how you “lose” can change everything. The Greek women of Zalongo danced in the face of tyrants and won a victory from defeat. The fall of Rome, Greek speaking Rome, came in 1453 and the Christians of the Middle East and Europe became second-class subjects of a great Empire for four hundred years. The Greeks might have vanished, but they endured to... Read more

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