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June 2020

June 23, 2020
My Mother and I used to laugh at greeting cards that began: what is a...
June 22, 2020
When I was a boy, a person in my dad’s first church, better off than...
June 21, 2020
I am a small government conservative, supportive of the free market. More fundamentally, I am...
June 20, 2020
We have two new olive trees planted. One to remember an excellent person who died...
June 19, 2020
Happiest Juneteenth! On this day, one of the last outposts of the Confederacy, Texas, got...
June 18, 2020
We must trust the experts, except when we cannot, and there is a particular kind...
June 17, 2020
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory,...
June 16, 2020
The educational establishment is not listening. Debt increases. Parents and students keep paying for exploited...
June 15, 2020
Nessie versus Athena? Nessie wins, more or less, though Athena maintains her dignity. This is...
June 14, 2020
The students rushed off to see the grave of a classical Russian novelist and our...
June 13, 2020
On Charity with a (fairly) Uncontroversial Point for Christians  Christ commands us to love our...
June 12, 2020
When times are fearful, we can pray "Lord send the fire, that Pentecostal power!" Pentecost...
June 11, 2020
Some things we cannot control. Other people decide differently than they should or things just...
June 10, 2020
What to read this summer? This week two helpful books stood out. One was the...
June 09, 2020
Cure the bite of the "tarantula!" Disharmony is a bad sign in the soul or...
June 08, 2020
On Winning and Losing  Losing is no virtue, but then neither is winning. The Soviets...
June 07, 2020
Mickey Mouse is ninety-one. I suspect that with jazz, Lincoln, and scientific advances, Disney animation...
June 06, 2020
A visit to the tombs of the Hapsburg dynasty is a review of a large...
June 05, 2020
If you wish to keep thinking systems cannot be unjust, do not read Dickens. If...
June 04, 2020
Sleep sometimes hides from me and I find words soothing. They distract me from my...
June 03, 2020
  Margaret Thatcher makes pygmies of many of our present leaders on both sides of...
June 02, 2020
Some do theater, Grant won battles. George McClellan could write about courage, but could not...
June 01, 2020
In Praise of David Suchet  David Suchet is the greatest actor I have ever seen...

May 2020

May 31, 2020
Today I will pray, still online, with my parish and the prayers will be familiar. Our...
May 30, 2020
What should we do: to end potential war between India and China? to secure justice...
May 29, 2020
World War I continues to haunt the world as the mistakes of  the "peace" treaty...
May 28, 2020
Yesterday, a person started ranting about a particular failure and how people needed to "get...
May 27, 2020
Marie Antoinette. A great many people have an opinion two hundred and fifty years later....
May 26, 2020
"Silver and Gold I have. . ." so said the televangelist to applause so overwhelming,...
May 25, 2020
Hope E. Reynolds  recollects our heroes. Noble men and women reburied Union soldiers and so...
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