wacomeMar 28, 202125 min readHomilies for Pentecost 2 - 3 Second Sunday After Pentecost June 5, 1994 St. George's Episcopal Church Le Mars, Iowa Mark 3.20-35 No Loopholes "Truly I tell you,...
wacomeMar 28, 202120 min readHomilies for Pentecost 4 - 6Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 16 June 2002 St. George’s Episcopal Church Le Mars, Iowa Matthew 9.35-10.15 The Loving Father “When he saw...
wacomeMar 28, 202138 min readHomilies for Pentecost 7 - 11 Seventh Sunday After Pentecost 7 July 2002 St. George’s Episcopal Church Le Mars, Iowa Matthew 11.25-30 What Would Jesus Do? “Come to me,...
wacomeMar 28, 202152 min readHomilies for Pentecost 13 - 1613th Sunday After Pentecost 25 August 1996 St. George's Episcopal Church Le Mars, Iowa Matthew 16.13-20 The Man Who Saw Christ "Simon...
wacomeMar 28, 202124 min readHomilies for Pentecost 1717th Sunday After Pentecost 18 September 1994 St. George's Le Mars, Iowa Mark 9:30-37 Of Kings and Kids One of the many remarkable...
wacomeMar 28, 202171 min readHomilies for Pentecost 18 - 21 18th Sunday after Pentecost 27 September 2015 Church of the Savior Orange City, Iowa If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it...
wacomeMar 28, 202131 min readHomilies for 22 and 23 Pentecost22nd Sunday after Pentecost 20 October 2013 Church of the Savior Orange City, Iowa Luke 18.1-8 The Badgered Judge “Where the corpse is,...
wacomeMar 28, 202117 min readHomilies for Last Pentecost/Christ the KingChrist the King Sunday (Last Sunday after Pentecost) 22 November 1998 St. George’s Episcopal Church Le Mars, Iowa Luke 23.35-43 Fear and...
wacomeMar 24, 20217 min readSean Carroll's The Big PictureI recently read Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Dutton, 2016). In my...
wacomeMar 15, 202132 min readDeeper Into SuperficialityWe belong to the surface of the world, and apply to it the classifications which inform and permit our actions...the meaning of the world...
wacomeMar 15, 202126 min readDon’t Call Them Socialists!We’re constantly hearing warnings about the one-party regime in Washington, that they will propel the country into socialism. While it...
wacomeMar 15, 20214 min readThe Mystery of the LeftThe mystery of the Left can be summarized in two questions: Why is the Left statist? Why is the Left anti-capitalist? Or, to combine...
wacomeMar 15, 202150 min readCurrent Reading I've decided to keep a record of some of the things I've been reading that might be of interest to others. The Singular Universe and the...
wacomeMar 15, 20212 min readReparationsThe current concept of reparations for slavery is ill-conceived. If someone wrongs or harms a person, he owes him compensation. A case...
wacomeMar 15, 20211 min readSocialism Works!Nothing “just works.” Whether doing something works depends on one’s aims in doing it. When practice relentlessly confirms what theory...
wacomeMar 15, 20211 min readCharlieCharlie He was the largest of the cats, robust, muscular and commanding. If human he’d be haughty. Toward me, he was always indifferent,...
wacomeMar 14, 20219 min readMy Book is now availableCover Description The Material Image reconciles the Christian faith and contemporary science by embracing, rather than evading, its...
wacomeMar 14, 202175 min readNotes on the 2020 Election As I acknowledge below, I regard there being large-scale election fraud on the Democrats’ part a priori plausible. So, soon after the...
wacomeMar 14, 20218 min readFragmentary Prolegomena to a TheodicyThoughts toward a work in progress. 1. If someone has good reasons to trust a person, then she can have good reasons to believe that he...
wacomeMar 14, 202135 min readAgainst Empathy, Fairness, and EqualityA critical review of Paul Bloom, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (Ne These provocative books constitute a three-front...
