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2021-05-25T19:31:54-04:00

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A Very Odd Way to Get the Key for the Singing, but Sing

Last updated on: May 25, 2021 at 7:31 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Sixty years ago when time to go home from the chemical factory, you needed a shower. Dupont and Carbide* did not want the troubles going home, though if you left your car outside regularly, the paint could get harmed from the air. That was a downside of the Kanawha River Valley. The upside were the people. Evidently, back in the day of my grands, as the men would head to the shower someone would get smacked with a rolled up... Read more

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2021-05-28T10:28:58-04:00

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Rejected Love?

Last updated on: May 28, 2021 at 10:28 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

The cosmos is built on Divine Love. The difficulty, of course, is that once one rejects some element of divine Love the entire order begins to unravel. We can choose badly, but bad results happen when we do. In this life, God causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust providing a stable social order where people who reject Him can find happiness. God’s constant hope is to woo us, giving all of us, better than our choices... Read more

Apologetics

2021-05-22T20:19:41-04:00

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Beauty Educates

Last updated on: May 22, 2021 at 8:19 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Beauty creates love, and love desires consent. Beauty is the mother of the dialectic: the discussion between students that is the heart of classical education. When we look Godward, we see beauty. This recognition of beauty can occur in a great book that some soul made in God’s image wrote. The beauty found in a poem by Langston Hughes stirs love and love begins a dialog with the poem. Beauty may appear in a film such as the Passion of... Read more

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2021-05-22T09:08:11-04:00

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But the Controversy the Controversialist Said!

Last updated on: May 22, 2021 at 9:08 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

An old classic rhetorical juke of the heretic, Arius was first master, is to claim controversy having created the controversy. Take any ethical issue. If the powerful decide that what has been good is now bad, some Christian religious leader or college professor will be found to dialog with the old evil as if it were a new good. “Let us ask, if indeed, every infant should be born, if abortion is such an important issue, maybe we were worried about... Read more

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2021-05-22T09:41:31-04:00

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Greetings UFO Pilgrims: Sorry about the Mess

Last updated on: May 22, 2021 at 9:41 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

There are, as we already knew, unidentified flying objects. These objects are unidentified and fly. That is all we know and we already knew that there were such things. Probably these objects will soon be identified and the explanations will be disappointing. One thought: the more complex our machinery, the greater the chance that we begin to see inexplicable artifacts through our technology, a more complex form of the light leaks in early cameras that gave us ghostly images when... Read more

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2021-05-28T11:35:36-04:00

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The Evil Blue Light or the Nattering Nabob of Negativity

Last updated on: May 28, 2021 at 11:35 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Never trust the person best known for what he is against. There was, family legend asserts, a man opposed to everything. If you enjoyed a thing, say a hairstyle, he would be sure to see in the bob a sign of coming evils. He worried about holidays, Christmas pageants, and “the evil blue light.” This was a television set in the days when television screens consisted of a big tube and were black and white. Wherever he went, he saw... Read more

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2021-05-20T23:52:01-04:00

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The Word Becomes Flesh

Last updated on: May 20, 2021 at 11:52 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

What is the beloved? What does Plato mean when he speaks of the known unknown, the beloved, the One we love without knowing His name? Plato never, quite, says. He knows this love is most divine, but Plato never quite calls the object of all our desires “God.” How could he? The gods of Homer and traditional Greek religion were not worthy of worship. If Plato cleaned them up, and he tried, then he had cleaned them up. The Zeus... Read more

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2021-05-18T10:01:24-04:00

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The Stories I Hear Behind My Papaw’s Chair

Last updated on: May 18, 2021 at 10:01 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Happy Birthday Papaw. If I put the big, brown, corduroy pillow on the floor behind Papaw’s chair, I had my own snug little room. I could hear everything the grownups were saying, but was not in the way or as likely to be sent to bed, a great terror when one is a boy. Granny would have served a wonderful dinner, but we generally did not snack on the living room carpet. However, there was always a candy dish with... Read more

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2021-05-17T09:57:35-04:00

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The True Light, Do Not Expect So Little

Last updated on: May 17, 2021 at 9:57 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Absolute romance finds a Beloved worth absolute commitment. The good God needs nothing, so when God decides to love us, we need only give consent to find joy. This is the good news: God is there, came in the person of Jesus Christ, and reveals Himself to us each week in His Body and Blood. We can see Him. We can see the True Light. Nothing can stop the true Light when the people of God, the beloved community, gather together.... Read more

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2021-05-20T23:46:48-04:00

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The Master Teacher Reasons and Reveals Beauty

Last updated on: May 20, 2021 at 11:46 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

On the road to Emmaus, the newly risen Lord Jesus came to two of His followers. They were going home in anguish. Jesus loved his friends and could have met their immediate need. He wished them to be happy, but He hid himself. Why? Scriptures say the two disciples were communing, talking, arguing with each other about all that had happened. They were trying to make sense of what they had believed about Jesus and what had happened. If Jesus... Read more

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