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April 2014

April 22, 2014
Israel's sacred history struck me as odd when I was a young man: the better...
April 21, 2014
We live in perilous times: Putin moves on Ukraine and Iran is getting the bomb,...
April 07, 2014
Christianity reserves all sexuality to the act of marriage, but not everyone can get married in the...
April 04, 2014
Dear William, Every kid that experiences God discovers, with joy, that most other people have...
April 01, 2014
Dear William, You have kindly let me share our correspondence with other people (at least...

March 2014

March 21, 2014
How do you honor your parents or childhood church if you fundamentally disagree with important...
March 19, 2014
It is the middle of March, so I am reading Middlemarch. This plan has been...
March 18, 2014
Noah is in the news. He is famous for his ark and the grace he...
March 10, 2014
Not all dreams are valid and some dreams must die for our good, but yet...
March 04, 2014
 Ratatouille: a beautifully made movie based on a jaw-dropping premise: rats in the kitchen. It works,...
March 03, 2014
Lupita Nyong’o won an Oscar for an outstanding job as an actor in an important...

February 2014

February 27, 2014
Pamela is an early English sort-of-novel showing the triumph of the virtue of Pamela: one of...
February 26, 2014
She says the expected, twists it, and then a sly smile, eyes half closing, appears...
February 21, 2014
I am a recovering liberal arts snob. Liberal arts advocates feel besieged for good reason....
February 20, 2014
Marriage is glorious when married to a woman proud of turning fifty: Hope Elizabeth turns...
February 17, 2014
Today is the day Americans celebrate our chief executive. This is a bizarre thing to...
February 12, 2014
An academic is willing to discuss anything. A human, perhaps, should not be willing to...
February 10, 2014
One of the most popular songs in American history has the following line: "My sin,...
February 07, 2014
Once, so long ago today's young earth creationists were all young, I was at a...
February 05, 2014
The great warrior Achilles was given a choice: live long or live gloriously. He made...

January 2014

January 20, 2014
Today the United States celebrates the work of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., particularly his...
January 11, 2014
Our most excellent friends sing for one of Southern California's best churches, but are often...
January 09, 2014
Unless you are Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., you should avoid using "I have a...
January 07, 2014
A Facebook friend asked me to "oppose all animal cruelty" and I agreed to do...
January 06, 2014
Thank God that no sizable number of Americans support Nazi or Soviet-style regimes. We must,...
January 05, 2014
The end of the football season is upon us. If your team is still in...
January 03, 2014
If you love Harry Potter, then you owe a debt to Tom Brown. Tom Brown...
January 02, 2014
Jesus' last name is not Christ. I heard this in Sunday School, as a joke,...

December 2013

December 31, 2013
A secular New Year (and the last half of the Christmas season) brings back memories....
December 20, 2013
    So I have this novel . . .and the publisher has fixed certain...
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