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August 2020

August 23, 2020
My dad in eighty-three years of life has run into all kinds: saints, grifters, prophets,...
August 22, 2020
God is not, in fact, the Great Mary Sue. A "Mary Sue" is an overpowered...
August 21, 2020
Reality may not be messy, but human understanding can be. We see partially, misunderstand mostly,...
August 20, 2020
If a group is small enough, say a group of American Christians in a small...
August 19, 2020
Let's live based on the world around and in us. Fantasy, even high fantasy, is...
August 18, 2020
The new morality is too often the old immorality tricked out in pseudo-scientific language or...
August 17, 2020
A good school knows when to quit. Of course, a good school starts by knowing...
August 16, 2020
Classical education is education; everything else is a modification of the normal. Almost all American...
August 15, 2020
"Assuming" when I was a kid led to somebody, usually the fifth grade know-it-all, telling...
August 14, 2020
Analysis of the race: This election, like most elections, hinges on the theology or philosophy...
August 13, 2020
Imagine for a moment that God exists. There is a perfectly good being. He loves...
August 12, 2020
Christians know we are all broken. Nobody is perfect and so no human being can...
August 11, 2020
If Disney is right, then "a wish is a dream your heart makes when you're...
August 10, 2020
Knowing a little about something complicated is dangerous. Everything you believe can be true, as...
August 09, 2020
We are awash in goodness, truth, and beauty. All we need do is raise our...
August 08, 2020
If any given Super Bowl were the most important game ever, they would not play...
August 07, 2020
Peace is a good thing, but not the only good. One handicap to Middle East...
August 06, 2020
Satan’s existence is suggested by human experience and the Bible and is confirmed by reading...
August 05, 2020
Economists tell us how the economy goes, but God tells us how it should go....
August 04, 2020
If Muslims choose to build a mosque or study center in America, anywhere, even near...
August 02, 2020
Socrates was killed for asking the wrong questions in a city that could not handle...
August 01, 2020
Morality uses medicine, but so does immorality. When I was a little boy, I knew...

July 2020

July 31, 2020
When stuck in life, a basic policy has been: “ask Dad, he knows.”  He told...
July 30, 2020
Standing in the entrance of Disneyland, I have often seen small children crying when their...
July 29, 2020
Americans too often worry more about what we call people than how we treat them....
July 28, 2020
Like the knowledge that you will be hanged in the morning, bad economic times concentrate...
July 27, 2020
It is bad enough if bad information costs you the value of your 401-K, but...
July 26, 2020
Seventy-three years ago one little boy was disappointed. He got a very nice suit of...
July 25, 2020
The American Declaration of Independence is wise when it appeals both to the truths of...
July 24, 2020
Imagine a fan boy so full of admiration that he takes your name and moves...
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