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The Christian case for Sir Harry Flashman…or something…
Flashman’s actions throughout the book are hysterically funny mix of bravery and cowardice. He is at once noble and despicable; admirable and deplorable. He…

What I’ve Been Writing
Over the past eighteen months, I have been blessed to be free to pursue the vocation of a writer as very few are ever…

“Then in Distress We Upraise” (3)
Time once again for #MelanchthonMonday! This is the third installment dealing with a petitionary poem by Joachim Camerarius and its Nachleben. In Part 1,…

To the Fallen
I thought about writing a post today but in light of events in Afghanistan I thought I would do something more simple and simply…

Two Cheers for the Great Man Theory of History
Thus British military historian Charles Oman in the incipit of Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic (1902): There was a time, not so…