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2020-11-28T12:05:48-04:00

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Rest with Nessie this Thanksgiving Day

Last updated on: November 28, 2020 at 12:05 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The wonder puppy-almost-a-dog Nessie rests when she is tired. As she spends much of the day rushing about to get the ball, a bone treat, and her plastic green pig, she is frequently tired. When she is tired, she ceases to fetch the ball, want a bone treat, leap for the plastic pig, and sleeps on her “Made in Texas” dog pillow. Often she will find a bed or couch where someone also is resting and appropriate this space for... Read more

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2020-11-28T12:10:11-04:00

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Prayers for our Leaders

Last updated on: November 28, 2020 at 12:10 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Social media reminded me that four years ago last week, I began to pray for Donald Trump as our President Elect. I continued to pray then, as I had for his whole term, for my President Barack Obama. Four years later I have begun to pray for Joseph Biden as our President Elect and continue to pray for my President Donald Trump as I have every day of his administration.* Sacred Scripture and my Church bid me to pray for political... Read more

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2020-11-25T19:12:18-04:00

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Looking at Lemons with Nessie

Last updated on: November 25, 2020 at 7:12 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Small wonders fill us with thanksgiving: this is the lesson of young Nessie. We are urban by choice, but Hope works hard at urban gardening and Nessie, the growing puppy-almost-a-dog, has discovered her lemons. She discovers them everyday since they started growing on the tree. She has wondered about each step in the process from small green to large yellow. The amazing thing is that every day she looks at the tree as if she has never seen just this tree... Read more

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2020-11-23T09:29:14-04:00

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Peace and Humility are the Defaults: No Hate (The Theotokos Weighs In)

Last updated on: November 23, 2020 at 9:29 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Christians must always give peace a chance. We side with the poor, the broken, the oppressed, because that is what our Savior tells us to do. Read the Bible and you cannot miss the special concern for the alien, the poor, the widow, the orphan, and those oppressed. We are a faith born in solidarity with the oppressed. Visions can convert Emperors and in this splendid moment, Christians can build enduring civilizations. Our beautiful cathedrals, cities, and cultures are built... Read more

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2020-11-22T11:02:48-04:00

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A Movie for Just Now: Day of the Siege

Last updated on: November 22, 2020 at 11:02 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

I started a film program, but I am not a professional critic. However, as a student of film and culture, I recommend Day of the Siege. You will learn through this film to live not by lies. You see that times have been worse and that the cowards, the sycophants to tyrants, and the Machiavellian fail. The good, the truthful, and the beautiful endure. This is a film at war with Hollywood, thank God. The computer generated graphics are crude, the acting... Read more

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2020-11-21T00:18:51-04:00

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That is a basket of summer fruit. . .

Last updated on: November 21, 2020 at 12:18 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. 2And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. This is a person God can use and a most promising student. When confronted with a basket of summer fruit by the Lord GOD, Amos reported what he saw. He did not try to guess what God was asking, but listened to the question. Amos’ answer is perfect, because he told... Read more

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2020-11-25T19:09:27-04:00

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Thicker than Zoom: Thankful for 3D.

Last updated on: November 25, 2020 at 7:09 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

You cannot get hit with a plastic sword on Zoom. This is not a cause for thanksgiving. My brother once taught in NorCal while we were living is SoCal. Each Sunday he would call into dinner. We would move a laptop around the room so he could see what was happening and so we could see him. When he finally came down for the Holidays, there was something odd about see him in 3D. I almost felt that we had... Read more

Culture

2020-11-18T19:41:49-04:00

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The Myth Must Hold

Last updated on: November 18, 2020 at 7:41 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

We need a story that will save us, because logic and facts apart from a narrative will not produce the passion we need to do our duty. A man will die for a flag, but he will not die for facts. To live, thrive, and multiply any good organization or cause must have a central story that motivates, provides a place for reason, and is beautiful. When the reason for being, the story that birthed the movement dies, then nobody can save... Read more

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2020-11-18T05:42:57-04:00

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Next Christmas in Constantinople? No. This Christmas in Constantinople.

Last updated on: November 18, 2020 at 5:42 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Do not be afraid. History is not ending. Victory is sure: in the sign of the Cross we will conquer. Every day the heroic bell sounds, the students gather, and holy men offer ancient prayers in the city of the twenty-first century. One old prayer we pray daily states the truth: the city of God is protected for all time. Since the great city, Constantinople, the Minis Tirith of ancient world, apparently has fallen to Sauron in this age, how... Read more

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2020-11-18T12:22:34-04:00

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The Very Air is Thick at Thanksgiving

Last updated on: November 18, 2020 at 12:22 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The world is so good, because nothing good is lost. When I walk into work, getting ready to teach in The College, I see his olive tree: Alfred Geier. He taught me the dialectic, the need to listen, to persuade myself that following the Logos where He leads is good and necessary. This journey does not turn out where I wish, but it is the only way that makes sense. There are other memorial olive trees for other stories and... Read more

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