Sorry, but I’ve dropped out of sight for over a month now, due to a pulmonary condition. My wife even hid the car keys. (We’re working on it.) If it weren’t for David M Poff to use my front page…
Category: Teachings
“Endeavor”, a Second Glance
My wife and I just completed the English crime series, “Endeavor”, which ran from 2012 to 2022, and starred Shawn Evans as the title character, who, during the 12 year run was never, never referred to as “Endeavor”, his given…
“Papismus Lucifugus”, the Advent of Tribalism in Not Just in Our Politics, but in American Conservatism
I actually had this book, one of only a few surviving. Dated 1668, it’s a record of a disputation between John Menzies of the (Church of Scotland) Divinity School at Marischal College in Aberdeen and an English Jesuit named Francis…
A Letter from Cumberland Gap, Our Last Talk
I had expected a Quickening, but not before Christmas. This is from a Vietnam vet, Infantry platoon leader, college roommate one year, a fine prosecutor, then judge, and a good courthouse philosopher of Thomas Jefferson’s ilk: We will have to…
The Timeline of Freedom, How and Why
I want to tell this story as it was seen and heard the first time in a classroom filled with black mothers, and their babies in a nursery across the hall….in the 1990s. In 1996 I began teaching a…