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August 2013

August 08, 2013

Black Boy, 2013

One of my boys is reading Richard Wright’s Black Boy for his English class this...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Belief and Belonging

Last week I went and watched my son graduate from Virginia Boys State. After the...

July 08, 2013

Sisyphus with a Lawnmower

I hate mowing the lawn. I hate lawnmowers. Our unkempt yard stands out among our...

June 2013

June 13, 2013

Practicing Forgiveness

A few months ago an old friend of mine emailed and asked me to forgive...

May 2013

May 27, 2013

Watchmen and Dr. Manhattan’s Miracles

I came late to the DC Comic’s collected Watchmen, the groundbreaking graphic novel by Alan...

May 06, 2013

Tuck In Your Artifice, It’s Showing

When someone shared Michael Chabon’s New York Review of Books blog post about the movies...

April 2013

April 12, 2013

Wild-Eyed Youth Pastor

I recently found an unexpected e-mail in my in-box. It was from Joe, my youth...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

The New Improved Golden Rule

Our neighbor Jack is a retired widower. He goes to a mainline Baptist church. It’s...

March 11, 2013

The Preacher’s Kid Returns

My sister my brother and I are right now, from three separate states, trying to...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

A Father-Daughter Story

I sit in the sunroom and look at the strewn possessions of my youngest, my...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Remembering the Sabbath

I was recently in an e-mail exchange with someone regarding my refusal to force my...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

Come Before Winter Part Two

Continued from yesterday. Paul faced the winter of death, and Timothy faces the winter of...

December 25, 2012

Come Before Winter Part One

Every year when I was young, as the vibrant colors of West Virginia’s fall foliage...

December 09, 2012

Science and the Death of Philosophy

My boy is a bit of a science geek. He subscribes to Discover and Popular...

November 2012

November 14, 2012

On the Marine Corps Birthday: Why Not Turn the Other Cheek?

Most years when the Marine Corps birthday comes around, followed immediately by Veterans Day, I...

October 2012

October 19, 2012

The Unbearable Badness of Ayn Rand

My good friend Marcelo has decided to read Ayn Rand’s fiction, to “see what all...

October 03, 2012

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Since I’ve been blogging here at Good Letters I have been contacted by several friends...

September 2012

September 13, 2012

Monks, Mandalas, and Faith Healing

After the initial cleansing ceremony, they worked in silent concentration. Hour after hour they knelt...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

The Severe Wind Event

I stood Saturday morning and looked up at the massive oak tree broken about twelve...

August 08, 2012

The Boy Who Lived Large

Friday we took the kids out of school early and hit the road for Aiken,...

July 2012

July 20, 2012

The Glen Workshop: My New Local Church

I don’t go to church. I haven’t for a number of years. Apparently that doesn’t...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Who Needs to Read Anymore?

At the community college where I teach—actually in the state capitol two hours away—a massive...

June 05, 2012

My Kite Boy

I woke at one thirty with a start. My heart pounded in my ears. My...