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2020-06-18T09:12:27-04:00

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Mainstream, Establishment, Obviously Wrong in a Particular Way. This Never Changes

Last updated on: June 18, 2020 at 9:12 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

We must trust the experts, except when we cannot, and there is a particular kind of expert that is too often wrong: the expert who distills consensus opinion and makes it normative for all, smoothing out all the cranky dissent in every discipline. If one goes back one hundred years, this kind of expert opinion about what is happening, what is moral, or what we should believe is hopelessly wrong. I have yet to find an era where these homogenizing experts... Read more

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2020-06-17T08:47:37-04:00

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On Commencement

Last updated on: June 17, 2020 at 8:47 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. Real education, if you are open to it, gives you exactly this vision: Jesus, the Word of God, the personal operating system of creation, is known to you. Seeing Jesus will continually give you a vision of grace and truth . . . the two necessary elements to live successfully. A... Read more

On Education

2020-06-16T10:46:21-04:00

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The First Graduation: One-on-One, No Usury, The Future Is Now

Last updated on: June 16, 2020 at 10:46 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

The educational establishment is not listening. Debt increases. Parents and students keep paying for exploited part-time workers. Christians refuse not to do better. You can get a college education, borrow no money, be in the city, and be a traditional Christian. Orthodox. Classical. Christian. College. Debt free. More than one expert suggested to me that the idea of K-16 education was not prudent. We should take more sensible jobs, they were there, and forget the weird notion that college could... Read more

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2020-06-14T23:16:14-04:00

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Nessie versus Athena (without Ninjas)

Last updated on: June 14, 2020 at 11:16 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Nessie versus Athena? Nessie wins, more or less, though Athena maintains her dignity. This is the present “versus game” in our house, a game of great antiquity. One of my children, now a very clever adult, as a child wished for a school play on the Loch Ness monster and Dracula. These were two very great interests and the only other requirement was that in the play both creatures be REAL. I was not allowed to pawn off Nessie as a... Read more

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2020-06-14T22:51:41-04:00

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Ballet, Education, and Bad Philosophy

Last updated on: June 14, 2020 at 10:51 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The students rushed off to see the grave of a classical Russian novelist and our Russian friend began to cry. Had we been rude? Had our enthusiasm caused us recklessly to disregard customs that mattered? No. She explained to me (quietly) that she hardly ever came to this place any more with Russian guests. Why? Russian young adults were more interested in more superficial things, they had no interest (at all) in more difficult aspects of Russian culture. They like... Read more

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2020-06-13T16:13:39-04:00

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Timing is Everything (The Discussion of Philosophical Motives)

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

On Charity with a (fairly) Uncontroversial Point for Christians Christ commands us to love our enemies. This includes those who disagree with us, though as Christ’s life shows, this does not prevent calling out bad ideas. Jesus Christ could speak a “woe to you” without cutting off grace and mercy. The command to love enemies implies at least two things. First, we cannot love people we do not understand. Failure to take the time to see what people with bad... Read more

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2020-06-12T00:55:16-04:00

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Christ through the Holy Spirit Proceeding from the Father Makes All-Wise Fishermen (For the Season of Pentecost)

Last updated on: June 12, 2020 at 12:55 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

When times are fearful, we can pray “Lord send the fire, that Pentecostal power!” Pentecost is not a day, but a season in the life of the church. Pentecost comes to Christ’s church for Christ’s church to serve everyone in the world. On the day of Pentecost, Christ sent the Holy Spirit to His church. This church, the ark of salvation, had existed from the foundation of the world, but now the Holy Spirit came to all Christ’s friends, not... Read more

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2020-06-11T01:13:27-04:00

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Exhaustion, Moral and Otherwise

Last updated on: June 11, 2020 at 1:13 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Some things we cannot control. Other people decide differently than they should or things just do not go the way we planned. We fail because we called “heads” and “tails” came up. Sometimes, however, we fail having almost won. A battle won, yet a war lost. Why? A lack of persistence can squander gains. In our lives, in societies, lives and nations can fail when exhaustion appears. To finish a job requires a will to keep moving forward, but we can become weary of... Read more

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2020-06-10T08:15:49-04:00

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Something to Read Just Now (Ten Books I Find Helpful)

Last updated on: June 10, 2020 at 8:15 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

What to read this summer? This week two helpful books stood out. One was the excellent biography US Grant by Ron Chernow. We find why this great, though flawed man, may have been underestimated for the last one hundred years due to his assault on the Klan and support for civil rights following the Civil War. Grant’s thoughts on Robert E. Lee and his “helpfulness” after the War are too little known and worth the read to see them in context... Read more

2020-06-09T09:46:21-04:00

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The Bite of the Tarantula and the Power of Musick

Last updated on: June 9, 2020 at 9:46 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Cure the bite of the “tarantula!” Disharmony is a bad sign in the soul or the body politic. Visible, superficial disharmony, may point to more serious issues. Just as fever is sometimes a sign of the underlying disease, so disharmony is (usually) not the problem, but a symptom of the problem. Symptoms must be noted as they help diagnose deeper disease. Nobody would want to treat only the symptoms while ignoring the disease, yet too often this is what we... Read more

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