by ProfDave, ©2024 (Jan. 10, 2024) —“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift” (II Corinthians 9:15)! As a cultural and religious historian, I am overwhelmed by the almost incomprehensible impact of the Bethlehem event. There is a reason why the world-wide “Common” calendar, as devised by an English monk (Dionysius Exiguus) in the 6th […]
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Who is Your King?
by ProfDave, ©2023 (Nov. 30, 2023) — Sunday was Christ the King Sunday at my church. Is He really? The universe is a mess. “Mother Earth” is sick, dying according to some. Mankind is sinking into insanity. America is a mess, not to mention the Middle East. We are all at each other’s throats. Just […]
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Jewish Nazis
by ProfDave, ©2023 (Oct. 25, 2023) — A young person comes home from college vehemently declaring that it was the Jews who beheaded babies in Palestine! There are mass demonstrations in and around our great universities! What in tarnation! Did I get some dystopian Nazi movie instead of my usual cable news? Is Hitler alive […]
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The Last World War?
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National Day of Prayer
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What If We Took God Seriously?
by ProfDave, ©2023 (Mar. 16, 2023) — “We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This […]
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In a Nutshell
by ProfDave, ©2023 (Mar. 8, 2023) — In a nutshell, most – if not all – of our troubles are only the excrescence, the surface expression, of the age-old struggle between good and evil. Not good guys vs bad guys, let alone Democrats vs Republicans, capitalists vs communists, or even Christians vs pagans. That is […]
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The Philosopher President
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I Was a Stranger
by ProfDave, ©2023 (Jan. 23, 2023) — What does a Christian Conservative think about the immigration/border crisis? Still trying to figure out the “undocumented” crisis. So glad I am not responsible for it – but I vote for (or against) those who are. Soon the crisis will be coming to my town and yours. We […]
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Christmas Meditation on a Windy Day
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Dec. 23, 2022) — Hanukkah/Chanukah commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, 165 BC/BCE. Jewish people celebrate publicly with lights – the Menorah – in their windows as a witness to the world that God lives. (Christians also put lights in their windows this time of year – with similar […]
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My Gratitude List
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Reunion Day
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Can the People Recover?
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Aug. 24, 2022) — When I wrote on “Guns and People,” I concluded that gun violence was a people problem, not a gun problem. Unfortunately, “the people” are a lot harder to address than guns. Banning guns looks as if you are doing something, even though its effect on illegal gun usage […]
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31 – Cultural Change, Part II
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jul. 14, 2022) — [See Part I of this title here.] Not the least of the cultural shifts of the 60’s, was the so-called sexual revolution. Once again, the change was far from unanimous and certainly not sudden, but over the decade there was a distinct shift in the constellation of sex, […]
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31 – Cultural Change, Part I
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jul. 12, 2022) — These notes will venture where angels fear to tread, guessing at the broader picture. If you do not disagree with anything I say, you probably are not thinking at all. Remember that I warned you: I am a conservative, a Christian, and a cold war veteran. By reading […]
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30 – The New Eastern Question
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jul. 7, 2022) — As you will recall, the “Eastern Question” is a geopolitical term for the consequences of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire in the last half of the 19th century. The definitive breakup of the Empire in 1918 led to the end of the Caliphate – the claim of […]
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Guns and People
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jul. 5, 2022) — The “mass shootings” are now a daily event – outrageous “gun violence” except when it is done with a knife or a car. Not to mention the gun battles in the streets such as we have not seen since prohibition. Violent “non-violent” demonstrations, too. It’s a jungle out […]
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29 – The New West
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28 – The Soviet Age
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jun. 28, 2022) — From 1917 to 1990 is most of the Twentieth Century. As the French Revolution set the agenda of the 19th century, so the Russian Revolution set the agenda for the 20th – perhaps. Over this period the name, at least, of Karl Marx casts a meta-ideological shadow. We […]