Monthly Archives: February 2025

Don’t Let the Old Man In

One of my sister’s sent me the link to the song named above on my birthday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc5AWImplfE.[i]  Give it a listen. You need to be a certain age to really appreciate it. My older brother said: He sneaks in. My older … Continue reading

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Useful Suffering

When suffering one either migrates to the poll of despair or resignation; at least I do. We know that despair is not of God but of the Evil One. We know that resignation is the refuge of the fatalists, Stoics, … Continue reading

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To be Hoisted Yet Again

Having recently published a blog about the ‘necessity’ (This word seems ill-advised in this context, but nevertheless.) of properly discerning what is truly adiaphora I find myself flummoxed, adrift, even asea.

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Apparatchiks Я Us

I’ve been banging on Concordia Health Plan’s publication Better Health for years. To sum up my take from 2013 (“Better Health Poorer Christianity” 7-29-2013) and from 2009 (“Food for Thought” 11-09-2009), I would subtitle Better Health with :Poorer Theology.

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