Houston is the American city of the twenty-first century. Forget what you think you know. We are a port city and one of the most diverse in the United States. We have a blue-state population with Christian family values and (of course) an innovative solution to college debt: classical, Christian college in Texas debt free.  If you are not here, you should be if you can be, but there is a catch.* There is the weather, because something has to... Read more

Christians are everywhere and everywhere we are there is Christmas. I shan’t try to “do” global Christmas. First, lest I become like unfortunate mostly white choirs “doing” Go Tell it on the Mountain where the choir manages to loot and spoil simultaneously. This is easy for barbarians, but to be avoided by all good people. Second, while we all celebrate, we do so in particular ways and it is the particular that we should never forget. I will celebrate global Christmas.... Read more

We need to celebrate the full Twelve Days of Christmas, because Jesus was born of the Mother of God just as much on day six as day one! Read more

Christmas is the eternal coming into the temporal. Time passes, but Christmas endures unmovable forever. Jesus is Lord of Time, though not the Doctor Who kind. In His divine nature, He does not travel through time, but transcends the dimension. God sees all events that occur in our time-bound dimension simultaneously. As the Christian philosopher Boethius put it: “. . . so does He see all things in His eternal present.“* In His divine nature: “’God is eternal; in this judgment... Read more

We need to celebrate the full Twelve Days of Christmas, because Jesus was born of the Mother of God just as much on day six as day one! Read more

Happy fifth day of Christmas! You Should Know It’s Still Christmas.  We are not yet half-way through Christmas and already I see people asking how Christmas was. This is one reason, I think, that people find jolliness, a simple version of joy, so hard. You cannot rest, consider, or even enjoy a great, good, splendid thing in one twenty-four hour period. Advent is a season of getting ready for Christmas and the secular world has an equivalent run up to... Read more

As a kid, I had broken my landspeeder by now or at least made it valueless to future collectors. Presents improve as you get older. Yesterday Dad gave me a gift that has endured three generations of my family. My great-grandfather Lewis Dayton Reynolds rode the circuit of churches in his area of West Virginia (early on with his faithful horse!) from 1912 to 1945. The year young Pastor Reynolds got the call the RMS Titanic sank and World War... Read more

We bought a glorious tree of the sort I once called a Filostrato Tree. The purchase and the wonder that followed buying an artificial tree meant I was wrong and my brother was right. That’s bad enough, but after some thought it made me realize I had missed an important point in my favorite novel: That Hideous Strength by over focusing on the example at the expense of the message. The message is vital if we are to find happiness in this life... Read more