Blog Posts

  • Is the Church Essential?

    It’s safe to say we are in uncharted waters when it comes to our national response to Covid-19. The most recent historical comparison is the Spanish Flu, but it took place before we were born and in an age that in many ways was closer to Shakespeare than to us. We are working our way…

  • On the finding of hardwood floors…

    As we were adding a walk-in closet to our master bedroom, we discovered that there were hard wood floors underneath the carpeting. The carpeting was old and ugly and we had plans to replace it with something hard surface anyway (3 little kids and 2 dogs makes carpet a poor option for our house!), so…

  • Counsel for Students during Covid-19

    My senior year of high school was full. Full of athletics, friendships, trips, and poignant goodbyes. There would have been a cost to losing that time. That cost is now being paid by the students of our nation, as well as other nations, that suddenly find themselves studying from home with the possibility of not…

  • My Favorite Historian

    Some things we love instantly and passionately. Others grow up more imperceptibly to become a dominant favorite. David McCullough is the latter. While I have moved the majority of my library to E-books, I still own the first paper book of his I read, 1776. I just finished Mornings on Horseback, a biography limited to…

  • Covid-19 Vs the Computer Models

    Chesterton once said something along the lines that with all the people making prophecies (in his day), every once in a while one of them was bound to get something right. Well, dire predictions have been made. Those who don’t look into these things may be thinking that the end of the world has come…