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2020-11-06T20:24:28-04:00

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Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story) Guest Voice: Rachel Motte

Last updated on: November 6, 2020 at 8:24 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

“Memories are always partly untrue,” writes Daniel Nayeri. “A patchwork story is the shame of a refugee.” Nayeri nonetheless offers his readers the gift of his most precious childhood memories, recounting them as if he were his 12-year-old self writing for his teacher, Mrs. Miller. Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story), his newest work, is a memoir aimed at a middle-school aged audience, but adults will find this is a book to come back to again and again. Nayeri... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-07T01:28:24-04:00

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Love (God and Neighbor!)

Last updated on: November 7, 2020 at 1:28 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

What should we do? Love God and love our neighbors. That is today’s agenda, because it is always the agenda for a Christian. If God is good, if God is love, then returning that love should be easy, but this is also the same God who is perfectly just. We are not so much perfectly just. Too often we find loving God easy, because the God we love is real, but we try to ignore aspects of the Divine Nature that are... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-08T07:06:20-04:00

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The Little Tyrant (Shout to Clitophon)

Last updated on: November 8, 2020 at 7:06 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Some tyrants are great and terrible, say Stalin, but other evil folk may just be the running dog Pulitzer Prize winner who empowered him. Most of us do not have the talent to even reach this level of tyranny. We lack the talent for spinning our mind control to millions. There are smaller tyrants who are simply narcissi having a moment of power and when the grift is revealed, they disappear. Frank Baum, of Oz fame, created a race of balloon... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-07T15:20:16-04:00

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God Be Kind To Us (with bonus reference to Ion)

Last updated on: November 7, 2020 at 3:20 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Sometimes we are stupid. At least sometimes I am stupid. I should not confess anyone else’s failure! I am most stupid when I dialogue with someone else and assume, or pretend, I know that they are foolish or utterly wrong. I see the grit in their mental eye, but miss the log in my own sight. That is the moment of epic folly on my part. Another soul, created in the image of God, has a passionate belief and I... Read more

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2020-11-02T21:18:58-04:00

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Asking a Real Question (A Nod Toward Meno)

Last updated on: November 2, 2020 at 9:18 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

A civilization cannot survive for long if it stops asking the right questions. I used to think there were no bad questions. Kind, overly kind, teachers even suggested this was true. Enough years of examining self and seeing my flaws showed me that this was not, quite, right. There are bad “questions.” Bad “questions” are insincerely asked. Sometimes as a student, I would ask a “question” that merely was a way of showing how much I knew, or thought I... Read more

Education

On Education

2020-11-03T00:17:26-04:00

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Nobody is Listening: A Falsehood of Our Time

Last updated on: November 3, 2020 at 12:17 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

What if nobody is listening? Listening, God help me, is harder for me than is talking. At age seven, I could blatherskite with the best and if anyone ever talked themselves to death that person would have been little me. My Mom could not have listened to all I had to say about stuff if she tried. Mom did the best she could. After a bit, it occurred to me that all the boiling ideas in my mind that seemed... Read more

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Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-03T08:49:54-04:00

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Cowardice is not Mercy

Last updated on: November 3, 2020 at 8:49 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Nobody wanted to tell him that he should not be president, that he had slipped, especially toward nighttime. Nobody would tell Marshal Petain that the Victor of Verdun, hero of World War I, the war to end all wars, was no longer the man he once had been. They were kind, they walked in their hopes. As a result, they pushed him to a role he could not fill, flattered him by lies. They were merciful, but cowards. They should... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2020-10-31T16:13:48-04:00

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Continuous Wonder: Education for Life

Last updated on: October 31, 2020 at 4:13 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Wonder about difficult, good, true, and beautiful works, but wonder. Few artifacts of human creation are perfect, so even the best require critical examination. A perfect work cannot be harmed by our reasonable inquiry and a bad piece is exposed. The human soul grows and education gives that soul the needed matter for health. These assumptions have governed classical education for millennia. Great works, plays, films, books, music, are examined in a community. Guides shepherd toward new understandings and so the canon can grow. Each generation... Read more

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Education

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Spiritual Reflections

2020-10-30T08:04:23-04:00

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Look the Source Up, Read for Yourself

Last updated on: October 30, 2020 at 8:04 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

The job of serpents is to question what has been said, that of Wisdom to clarify what is true. When asked a question, Mom often suggested: “Look it up.” Why? Maybe, just maybe, what seemed true was not. Make sure to look up what is claimed. We can create documents easily, so lies, or shoddy intellectual work, can travel quickly. One hour, right now, spent reading primary sources is more valuable than one hour reading social media. The books in... Read more

Apologetics

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2020-10-28T09:22:21-04:00

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O Procla!

Last updated on: October 28, 2020 at 9:22 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

She had a revelation that put together all she had seen and knew. One woman confronted power and tried to save Jesus. She knew the Governor, she knew God, and she had a dream. Her name was Procla and when history was heading toward hundreds of years of Imperial rule, she stood for justice, her memory is eternal. The church remembers Procla, the wife of Pontius Pilate, the governor that bowed to a mob and killed Jesus. Who can know why for... Read more

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