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January 2016

January 21, 2016
An ethic is the inner structure of a polity. Sacramental Theology and Covenant Theology are...
January 20, 2016
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." Orange Catholic...
January 18, 2016
"This too shall pass." The Sufi poets A few years back Francis Fukuyama published a book...
January 15, 2016
I like antibiotics and air-conditioning, and I'd like to keep them. Many knowledgable people agree...
January 14, 2016
I've been invited to screen another film, Disney's, The Finest Hours. Here's the trailer-- I'll...
January 13, 2016
I've thought long and hard about secularism and as I've done so I've come to...
January 11, 2016
Most people classify themselves as middle-class. This is interesting for at least a couple of...
January 08, 2016
"O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself!" Psalm 94:1 I know a man who...
January 07, 2016
A splash page introduces a story. Here's a the pencil for the splash...yet to be...
January 06, 2016
Does Robert Crumb hate you? I've used the word hate pretty liberally throughout my review....
January 04, 2016
I just ordered R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country . The reason I did...
January 01, 2016
Three or four years back I queried Books and Culture about writing a review of...

December 2015

December 30, 2015
I begin with a confession: I am not a fan of Robert Crumb. But from...
December 29, 2015
I just finished a tribute to Reverend Howard Finster this morning and thought I'd share...
December 28, 2015
It can take years of study for a fish to see water. It did for...
December 26, 2015
We can hope that Western civilization is in the early stages of awakening from a...
December 23, 2015
If someone told me a story about an old industrial town that defended its beautiful...
December 21, 2015
I share good news with family and friends less often than I used to. I've lost...
December 18, 2015
A Christian woman, teaching at an evangelical college, has unintentionally stirred controversy by donning the...
December 16, 2015
So I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, but I like granola. But why should...
December 14, 2015
Animals, I assume, are literalists. Metaphors, analogies: animals just don't get them. I tried a...
December 11, 2015
If you're the sort of person who believes that the universe is hermetically sealed, with...
December 09, 2015
“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots...
December 07, 2015
I never pulled it off. When Jesus did it it wasn't just a wonder; it...
December 04, 2015
Grudgingly, I am coming to accept that you don’t choose the place; the place chooses...
December 03, 2015
I'm not a fan of Ask This Old House, the spin-off of the PBS home...
December 02, 2015
Recently some astronomers discovered two earth-sized planets orbiting Kepler-20, a star roughly 1,000 light years...
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