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2020-09-17T22:35:41-04:00

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Courage with Prudence

Last updated on: September 17, 2020 at 10:35 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

I was once asked to go to a country that had just shaken free from communism. The government was unsteady. I was told some interpreted “freedom” as moving from the tyrants with titles to the grandchildren of the tyrants without official titles. The looting would go from stealing from the state directly to stealing from the state through “companies.” This was not an improvement. The old tyrants and grifters at least felt the need to build grandiose monuments and dysfunctional... Read more

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2020-09-16T19:19:28-04:00

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Speak 3 Times, Each Time Louder: Weird Rules, Deeper Meaning

Last updated on: September 16, 2020 at 7:19 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Watch enough television, and sadly I have watched enough television, and you observe a rule: speak three times, each time with greater intensity, and those around you will take you seriously. The simple minded writer can merely make his character speak louder. Try this at home and you will discover that people will pay attention, perhaps not good attention, but attention. “I am tired,” he said softly as he looked into the kitchen. “I am tired,” he said firmly as... Read more

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2020-09-16T08:16:04-04:00

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Lest We Forget: the Courage of Children, the Bravery of Adults

Last updated on: September 16, 2020 at 8:16 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, Carol Denise McNair. Courage was required to go to 16th Street Baptist Church in the face of a summer of domestic terrorism. Your church was standing against the shadow of that hideous strength with light. The true light caused the vermin to scurry and become vicious. Members of a terrorist organization, the KKK, placed sticks of dynamite under a church, killed four children, and injured many. Why? The children had the courage of... Read more

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2020-09-14T19:13:36-04:00

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Other Voices: One Election Perspective from Dr. Holloway- “Election of the Parasites” (Other Points of View to Follow)

Last updated on: September 14, 2020 at 7:13 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

My job precludes any public endorsement for President. There is (and has) been so much good work to do, that I have not had as much time to study the candidates and issues as in the past. After 2016 my days in talk radio ended. I still get asked about the race and occasionally give updates from the perspective of people I know. As the vote comes closer, here is one perspective. I will be publishing other points of view... Read more

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2020-09-13T22:24:22-04:00

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Same Song, Different Peformance

Last updated on: September 13, 2020 at 10:24 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Can we make tomorrow, a common day, a beautiful day? Truth will help us, a basic pattern of loveliness can give guidance, and all the particular joys of our lives can enrich the day. In truth, without any compromise of that truth, can come glorious variation, forms of beauty, that make the world interesting. This week is likely to have a routine, but I am reminded to seek ways to give the day a good twist marking interest. This weekend marked a... Read more

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2020-09-12T21:06:55-04:00

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It is a small thing that last dance, but a good thing.

Last updated on: September 12, 2020 at 9:06 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The last dance with my daughter, before she was married, was good. I resist some good things. I am glad for the end of childhood and the wonderful love I see between my daughter and her husband. I am most happy to be, by marriage, a potential member of his folks. Hope and I are hoping they will accept us over time! Nothing could be undone now without sin. No man could condemn marriage without arguing with God. What God... Read more

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2020-09-09T20:13:55-04:00

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Wisdom, Art, Math, Science. . . Oh My!

Last updated on: September 9, 2020 at 8:13 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

There is something good about school that we must never lose. Take one week in fifth grade, Cobbles Elementary, see what a spread of mental delights these public school teachers provided and realize this glorious intellectual feast lasted for years.* We got a “mystery kit” to work on identifying a mysterious element. We got the first glimpse at one type of scientific method. Off we went to art, where we got make sketches and use simply huge pieces of paper.... Read more

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2020-09-09T17:55:37-04:00

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An Apologia for my Fandom: Why care about Socrates?

Last updated on: September 9, 2020 at 5:55 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Why care about Socrates? Why care about any person who lived a long time ago? Haven’t times changed? Why linger over any wisdom the old Athenian might have had centuries before Jesus was born? As one commentator said of me: “You are really obsessed about the past and Socrates” This is quite true. I think Socrates life and death matter and still teach us. Why? First, Socrates created a method of learning, the dialectic, that can play a central part... Read more

2020-09-09T09:43:43-04:00

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Weird Purity Culture Kills

Last updated on: September 9, 2020 at 9:43 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Purity is beautiful. As the ancients understood purity, a way of living tested over thousands of years, in hundreds of circumstances, purity helped. All God’s children should live in purity culture: joyful, wise, virtuous. After all God is good, full of truth, and beautiful. If we love God, we will love His attributes! A sensible soul seeking God will separate from evil, falsity, and ugliness. We will purify our hearts, so as to see beauty in everything from stars to... Read more

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2020-09-08T18:57:57-04:00

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Making a Legendary Life

Last updated on: September 8, 2020 at 6:57 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

As a little boy, the older folks would sit and pass down to us the oral tradition. They gave us stories, the reasons we were the people we are. The stories were true, though often the details were pared down to the essence. Some facts might be forgotten or jumbled, but the tales were true to the experience of the folks. They told us where we had come from, where we were, and where we might be going. Why had... Read more

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