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January 31, 2018

Psalms of Praise (A Movement Primer)- A Board Book for Baby Believers!

The reality of God, like the reality of air, water, and ideas, hits us from...

January 30, 2018

Jenny Lind and The Greatest Showman on Earth

If at every moment during The Greatest Showman, one forgets the actual P.T. Barnum, then the...

January 29, 2018

The Beloved Unknown and Education

Learning, real education, is a product of the love of wisdom, a desire that cannot...

January 28, 2018

Learning to Fight Racist Education: Dialog with the Work of Carter Woodson

Carter G. Woodson demonstrated that racists kept African-Americans in a subservient state after Empancipation by...

January 27, 2018

The Marks of a Bad Education (Carter G. Woodson)

Imagine education designed to put you in chains. Plato described it (Republic VII) and Carter G....

January 26, 2018

Myths, Equality, the State, and Society

Here is a sad fact: I am much slower than I was when I was...

January 25, 2018

You Can Call Him Al

Students could call him Al, he insisted, the fabulously learned man who led text based...

January 24, 2018

“We are all going to die.” – On Popular Culture that Ignores 40% of the Population

Once upon a time there was a man in a beautiful Kingdom that was given...

January 23, 2018

I cannot stop listening. . .

Many students use Plato’s ideas without realizing they are doing so. As a result, we...

January 22, 2018

Too Much Smack, Too Little Talk

Used to be that the people you knew, that you heard the most, were the...

January 21, 2018

Nothing Could Be Worse than this Fat, Weak, Tyrant

Nothing could be worse than a fat tyrant, widely viewed as mentally incompetent, weak, and...

January 20, 2018

Euthymius is Great!

Some church leaders are wonderful, but intimidating. Some might want lunch with Saint Augustine, but...

January 19, 2018

Read Anne Spencer: God’s Flowering Beauty Overcomes Human Ugliness

Beauty is needful always, but just now deeply. God help us, but we need the...

January 18, 2018

The Mark of the Church

His name was Clement: student of the apostles. He saw a good thing go bad,...

January 17, 2018

The Lost King of France: Sorrow, Science, and Simplicity

This boy was born in luxury we can hardly imagine and died covered in lice....

January 16, 2018

Fire and Fury: A Sympathetic Account of the President

This is a review of a book, not of the President of the United States....

January 15, 2018

Don’t Go Up to Look Down

4 A little learning did not help me, but when forced in graduate school to...

January 14, 2018

Three Signs You’ve Found a Good College

School is expensive, choose wisely.

January 13, 2018

Ms. Brazile’s Must Read Book

Donna Brazile is the kind of person who might like a good word, even from...

January 12, 2018

On the Tyrant Soul

Soul work is frightening. It is easier to talk about politics than about our souls....

January 11, 2018

The Last Jedi and Being On No Side

Can’t we take our entertainment less seriously?

January 10, 2018

Pirates Are Not Good: An Insight

I never thought I would have to say this, but pirates were not good. Getting...

January 09, 2018

Thank You, Al Michaels: I do believe in miracles.

I have listened to Al Michaels for a long time, he is very good at...

January 08, 2018

PT Barnum and the Soft Con

Beware the soft con, the one that seems a bit like a joke.* Over the...

January 07, 2018

Love Thy Body: Nancy Pearcey’s Book, Brilliant if Flawed

I love this book, brilliant if flawed. You should buy it and read it, but...

January 06, 2018

A Year of Hope or Positivity

This is a good year for hope: the virtue that aspires to more. Hope is a...

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