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2021-02-06T13:43:12-04:00

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The Black Authors Who keep Teaching Me (A Collection of Reflections)

Last updated on: February 6, 2021 at 1:43 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

This month I am sharing my reading of Black American poets in the nineteenth century. This reading is helping me prepare for class at The College. I received the following comment from someone on social media: Conservatives sure do love to quote dead black people. Living ones not so much. See, for example, what they had to say about MLK before and after 1968. There is some truth in this response. “Conservatives” of a sort did oppose MLK. There is... Read more

2021-02-06T13:51:01-04:00

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Aspiring, Hoping to Love America (Unknown Black Poet 1848, A Lady)

Last updated on: February 6, 2021 at 1:51 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

I meet people who cannot love their motherland. These are usually those who were told lies in school about the nation, then disillusioned when they heard the truth. Some few are the pharisaical souls that can only love what is perfect. They judge harshly. For example, ancient Athens was a city built on slavery where only men could vote. This is bad: no excuses. Still, the republic of ancient Athens spread as far as any place up to that time... Read more

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2021-02-02T00:38:19-04:00

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Written in 2017: Christian Paganism and a Bad Nationalism Coming?

Last updated on: February 2, 2021 at 12:38 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Here is a post I wrote in 2017 after two years taking on a growing Christian pagan/nationalist problem. Read more

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2021-02-02T09:55:51-04:00

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The African’s Dream

Last updated on: February 2, 2021 at 9:55 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

The truth is often knowable, if we only listen.** If any American meets someone who wants to talk about slavery in the United States, ask if they have (at least) listened to the voices of those enslaved. If they have not, they have nothing to say. If one even forgets, for a moment, the horrors described by the enslaved and considers only the loss of home in being brutally kidnapped and taken from home. I do not have to say... Read more

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2021-02-02T23:05:26-04:00

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Ten Ways to Avoid Getting Duped by Information

Last updated on: February 2, 2021 at 11:05 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

I once called the eminent scientist Alfred Wallace, “Lord Alfred Wallace.” He was not a lord, despite the fact that I had read this in a book. The book was wrong and I was wrong. This was not a very serious mistake in the context of my argument, though noting that Wallace was from a lower class background than Darwin might be interesting in another context. Getting the fact wrong was not good, so I corrected the error, apologized, and... Read more

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2021-01-30T23:16:02-04:00

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Education and Truth in Advertising

Last updated on: January 30, 2021 at 11:16 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Christian colleges should stop living by marketing lies. I learned the ugliness at a very young age. The problem is not difference of perspective, but lies. If you are hanging out with faculty at a Christian college as a youngling and you hear them mocking the beliefs of the parents and boasting about how they exist to change those beliefs in the students, then you are witnessing a fraud, even if you disagree with the perspective offered. Colleges are not,... Read more

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2021-02-01T23:16:13-04:00

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WandaVision: A Provisional Review

Last updated on: February 1, 2021 at 11:16 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

WandaVision is difficult to review, because almost anything one says is a spoiler. This is not so good as when one hears the summary and guesses what the show might be about, assuming one is not in seventh grade, one is likely to be right. This is not even Buffy second season for complexity and story arc so far. And yet the first three episodes were risky video, a slow unfolding of the central concept, and so there is hope.... Read more

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2021-01-29T20:36:36-04:00

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The Sad Sack

Last updated on: January 29, 2021 at 8:36 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

There is, my adult children tell me, a small temptation that can ruin a life. This is the Temptation of the Sad Sack. When I was a boy, the Sad Sack was a comic (before they were high brow comix), World War II humor transported to the 1970’s, the jokes lost in transition. There have been many Sad Sacks in literature, the first I know of being Dolon in his weasel hat, the Sad Sack of Homer’s Iliad. He was a... Read more

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2021-01-27T18:45:26-04:00

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The Church is One

Last updated on: January 27, 2021 at 6:45 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The Orthodox Church is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. The Church is one, and no salvation is found outside the Church. The unity of the Orthodox, catholicity, is a completeness. Where the grace of God is present, the Church is present. This is normally based on the grace of God poured out to the individual member of the Church through the sacraments of the Church and other means of grace. This grace grants the Church, and individual members... Read more

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2021-01-26T12:09:05-04:00

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Hungry for the Truth

Last updated on: January 26, 2021 at 12:09 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

This is the diet time of year, the lean month, sans alcohol, sans parties, sans jollity. Yet the hunger for Pascha (Easter!) coming and summer (the Glorious Fourth!) and Christmas (so distant, so certain) is there. The lack makes the love sweeter. Lacking pleasure, having the pain of not having, is necessary for great pleasure. Too much of what we love and the beloved becomes cheap or cloying. Enough is sufficient and so we wait. Pain and pleasure go together, neither evil, both potentially good.... Read more

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