Today (March 26) is Robert Frost's birthday. (This "modern" poet was born only nine years after the conclusion of the Civil War. History is bizarre.) A while back, I started working on a light-hearted homage to Frost's poem "Mowing." I share it here in honor of the...
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Thesis Defenses
On the occurrence of the Greek word φιλανθρωπία (God’s love for man).
“Stanzas Written in Dejection, on the La-Z-Boy”
Light verse on bad comedy.
Dylan’s Aristotle, Dylan’s Melanchthon?
Speculation on the classical, biblical, and theological sources of a line in “Absolutely Sweet Marie.”
“I Distinguish!”: A Poem on Pseudoscholastic Abortion Arcana
A poem on anti-life logic chopping.
Conrad’s Dostoevsky
Joseph Conrad’s view of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Summary: Not very nice!
Plato at the Grammys
On Peter Wehner’s Plato.
“From One Ivy Leaguer to Another”: A Poem on the Harvard Manual of Style (2nd ed., rev.)
On doing your own research.
“Mary: A Marvel”: Another Epigram by Henrik Harder
A new translation from Henrik Harder.
Melanchthon Defines the Church
An excerpt on the church from Philip Melanchthon’s PROPOSITIONES COMPLECTENTES PRAECIPUOS ARTICULOS DOCTRINAE COELESTIS.