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December 2013

December 19, 2013
The Rules: In a live reading, I live my life while reading a book and...
December 05, 2013
As the son of a pastor, the grandson of a deacon, and the great-grandson of...
December 04, 2013
We should help the poor and not shame them. Put succinctly: sinners should be ashamed,...
December 02, 2013
Pope Francis is a Christian, but he is also a conservative. These truths are so...

November 2013

November 27, 2013
What if you gave a schism and before anybody of global importance had noticed, the...
November 26, 2013
Evidently fellow Patheos blogger, Tony Jones, has gone into schism with my church. This presents...
November 21, 2013
Some Holiday parties will lack holiness. Other Holiday parties will be selfish and wasteful. In...
November 19, 2013
My daily news comes from The Telegraph: if you want literate center-right English perspective, then the Telegraph will not...
November 14, 2013
To avoid disappointment let me begin by saying this is not a post reviewing Fifty Shades...
November 13, 2013
Ask a teacher: a paper that settles an issue with a dictionary definition is a...
November 11, 2013
I could just say: "Read this magnificent post." but being long-winded I cannot. American Protestants,...

October 2013

October 31, 2013
Ideally? Washington politicians would read and discuss Jane Austen's Persuasion.  Practically? Practically, our leaders are too...
October 25, 2013
I did not vote for President Obama, twice, I did not vote for Bill Clinton,...
October 11, 2013
Beware: higher education is changing. Many schools that exist today will not exist tomorrow and...
October 09, 2013
It was funny once. If you are my age and had a bad case of...
October 07, 2013
Jack Lord's Steve McGarret was Captain Kirk as a Catholic. Hawaii Five O took traditional...
October 03, 2013
Most Americans would be fine during an extended government shutdown and the longer it goes...
October 01, 2013
The wily Brownshirt in the Kremlin, Mr. Putin, saved us from an immediate debacle in...

September 2013

September 30, 2013
Star Trek delayed my Dad's pastoral visit: it had that power. He came to visit...
September 25, 2013
What The Andy Griffith Show did for life in the South, the Dick Van Dyke Show did...
September 24, 2013
Would I have married her if she did not love the Andy Griffith Show? Probably, but...
September 20, 2013
What should I want for those I love? I want them to be happy, of...
September 19, 2013
I think, therefore I am. So runs the one of the few philosophical quotations almost...
September 17, 2013
This weekend HBU won its first football game: ever. Some schools sell t-shirts that say:...
September 16, 2013
Nobody is a Vulcan, not even Vulcans, if Star Trek canon is to be believed:...
September 12, 2013
Dear Glaucon*, Thank you for questions about vocation. No good person wants to live for...
September 10, 2013
If he were leading a discussion class on Syria, warfare, and the last twenty years...
September 09, 2013
Charles Dickens wrote a most excellent essay against proposed Sabbath laws, Sunday Under Three Heads. Certain...
September 07, 2013
When I like something, such as Disneyland, and it gets criticized on line, if I...
September 05, 2013
I am told that there may be as many as twelve million adult males who...
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