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2024
Jul 09
Installing Auctex with Straight
Jul 04
Beamer Article and Org Mode
May 24
Converting Org Files to Canvas Quizzes
Jan 24
Org, Diary, and Dashboard
2023
Dec 26
Fixing a HomePod Stuck in Configuration
Aug 02
Emacs Literate Config
Jul 26
Still Cancer Free in 2023
Apr 16
Emacs From Scratch
Apr 13
Indoctrinating Students
Apr 13
Introduction to Existentialism
Feb 06
Doom Native Compiler Error
Feb 06
Fixing Emacs Doom Upgrade
Feb 05
New Hugo Functions
Feb 05
Testing Some Functions
Feb 04
Venn Diagrams in LaTeX
Feb 01
List Spacing in Org Mode with Enumitem
Jan 25
Org Mode Footnotes in Hugo
Jan 24
Updating the Site
Jan 23
Styling Arguments in Org Mode
Jan 21
Arara and Latexmk
Jan 21
Harmony of the Gospels
2022
Nov 13
Sticking with Hugo
Oct 30
Reformation Sunday
Jun 09
LaTeX Compilation Scripts
May 14
Copying Files with Fish
2021
Jul 21
Org Export to PDF with Arara
Jul 18
Abbreviate Path to iCloud Files in Emacs
Jul 14
Workflow with Hugo and Org Mode
Jul 12
Blogging with Org Mode in Hugo
Jul 02
Fall 2021 Textbooks
Jun 29
Styled Pages in Canvas
Jun 24
Arguments in HTML
2020
Jul 29
On the Use of Political Pejoratives
Jun 01
Beamer Presentations with Org Mode
May 12
Emacs Org-Capture
Mar 19
Thoughts on COVID-19
2019
Sep 29
When Will You Learn to Love?
Sep 29
Charlie and Rose
Aug 06
Some Thoughts on Mass Shootings
Aug 01
Free Shows in the Hospital
Jun 26
Org-Mode Citations with Ivy-Bibtex
Jun 16
Prayer for Trinity Sunday
Jun 10
What We Need
Jun 09
Insurance Update
Jun 08
Insurance Woes
Jun 05
Cancer
Apr 21
When is the Day?
Apr 21
The Road to Charlottesville
Apr 21
My Oklahoma Home
Feb 20
Questions and Answers
Feb 14
Thoughts on The Fine-Tuning Argument
Feb 10
Prayer for the Fifth Sunday of Epiphany
Jan 08
Growth
2018
Dec 24
A Gift for Us
Dec 12
Success
Dec 10
Finals Week
Nov 04
Prayer for Pittsburgh
Oct 06
My Oklahoma Home
Sep 15
Thurman on Christian Power
Sep 03
Prayer for Labor Day
Aug 31
An Ancient Christian Epitaph
Aug 07
Benediction
Jun 20
Pascal on Might and Right
Jun 19
Family Separation at the Borders
Mar 30
The Art of Taxation
Mar 30
Homily for Maundy Thursday
Feb 20
Benediction
Feb 19
Prayer in Times of Fear
Feb 15
Homily for Ash Wednesday
Feb 10
Truth Tables in LaTeX
Feb 10
Move to WordPress
2017
Dec 24
Prayer for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
Dec 09
Ordination Prayer
Dec 04
No Democrat Voted for What?
Nov 30
Ethics of War Handout
Nov 20
Moltmann on Peace
Nov 19
Prayer for Times of Grief
Oct 24
When the Idols are Destroyed
Oct 24
Study Guide for Exam 2
Oct 12
The Burden of Freedom
Oct 03
Do Not Be Daunted
Sep 30
In Offense, Giving Thanks
Sep 24
On Passing Judgment
Sep 12
Be the Body of Christ
Sep 04
A Prayer for My Failing Faith
Aug 17
A New School Year
Aug 09
Prayer for Graceful Words
Jul 21
Emacs Config
Jul 04
Prayer to See What Could Be
Jul 02
Moving to Hugo
Jun 27
Fall 2017 Textbooks
Jun 26
Making Beautiful Things
Jun 21
Publishing to Jekyll with Editorial on iOS
Jun 03
Pentecost Prayer
May 18
Favorite Bad Amazon Review
May 16
Prayer for Finals Week
May 07
Real Riches
May 04
Thoughts on Trump and the Johnson Amendment
Apr 21
O'Connor on Evil
Apr 16
Prayer for Easter
Apr 15
Prayer for Holy Saturday
Apr 14
Prayer for Good Friday
Apr 13
Thoughts on Maundy Thursday
Apr 08
Prayer for Palm Sunday
Apr 03
The Betrayer
Mar 28
Sliding Down the Banister of Life
Mar 27
The Lamb of God
Mar 19
Who Is My God?
Mar 16
Obama's Economic Record
Mar 14
Usury in Oklahoma
Mar 09
Voices of the Marginalized
Mar 08
Brueggemann on the Crisis in the Church
Mar 08
Emacs Markdown Indentation
Mar 01
Prayer for Ash Wednesday
Feb 28
Good Advice
Feb 23
Give Me Words of Grace
Feb 09
Prayer for the Silenced
Jan 30
Political Engagement — a Prayer
Jan 21
Prayer for the Fight
Jan 15
Prayer in Times of Change
Jan 13
Nietzsche on Military Buildup
Jan 12
The Sin of Ambivalence
Jan 09
Disagreement and Being Wrong
Jan 03
Prayer for the New Year
2016
Dec 28
Walls
Dec 25
Christmas Prayer
Dec 21
Christmas Communion Liturgy
Dec 20
Prayer for Avent 4
Dec 13
The Offensive Jesus
Dec 08
The Frailty of Love
Dec 03
The Rise of Fake News
Dec 02
Prayer of Hope
Nov 24
Gratitude Over Despair
Nov 23
On Christian Unity
Nov 23
Housman on Thought
Nov 17
To Love or Die
Nov 13
Hands that Crucify
Nov 12
Prayer of St. Thomas
Nov 11
Vonnegut on the Presidency
Nov 10
After the Election — Love
Nov 09
The Idol of the Poll
Nov 09
Interesting Times
Nov 06
Prayer for All Saints Day
Nov 03
Prayer Before the Election
Oct 23
The Silent Jesus
Oct 21
Confirmation Bias and the Clinton Foundation
Oct 20
The Uselessness of Political Fact-Checking
Oct 12
Planting a Tree
Oct 01
Race, Police Shooting, and Probability
Sep 27
The Eyes of Faith
Sep 26
Ancient Philosophy Study Guide
Sep 22
The Ballad of Mitch Randall
Sep 17
Friends in the Darkness
Sep 06
Benediction for 22 Shenanigans
Aug 27
A Prayer of Thanks for Friends
Aug 19
Let Me Be Known
Aug 12
A Funeral Benediction
Aug 07
A Wedding Prayer and Blessing
Jul 31
Should the Church Bear the Welfare Burden?
Jul 19
Prayer After a Tragic Week
Jul 12
Automating Jekyll with Fish
Jul 09
Prayer for the Nation
Jun 29
To Love People As They Are
Jun 29
The Real Mover
Jun 23
Emacs on the iPad
Jun 22
Prayer for the Twenty-Two
Jun 14
Don't Be Afraid
Jun 12
Prayer for Orlando
Jun 08
Formatting Poetry
Jun 08
Pull Quotes
Jun 06
Teach Me to Sing
Jun 01
Imported Old Posts
Jun 01
Indifference
Jun 01
Reconciliation and Hope
May 23
Prayer for Our Fears
May 15
Prayer for Pentecost
May 08
A Mother's Day Prayer
May 03
Prayer for Freedom
Apr 26
For Those Who Are Labeled
Apr 24
Prayer for a Busy Week
Apr 13
The Fear of Risk
Apr 11
Venn Diagrams with LaTeX and TikZ
Apr 03
A Baptism Prayer
Mar 30
Ignorance is Easy
Mar 29
Thomas the Faithful
Mar 26
Holy Saturday
Mar 25
Prayer for Good Friday
Mar 24
Prayer for Maundy Thursday
Mar 20
Prayer for Palm Sunday
Mar 13
Rejecting Exclusion
Mar 07
Faith and Power
Mar 02
Girard on Blame and Innocence
Feb 28
Prayer for the Desert
Feb 22
Truth, Beauty, and Peace
Feb 14
Prayer for New Life
Feb 11
The Ashes of Our Idols
Feb 11
Syntax Highlighting Test
Feb 10
Prayer for Ash Wednesday
Feb 01
Outside the Beautiful Gate
Jan 30
The Body Just Quits
Jan 30
Strength and Wisdom
Jan 30
Gifts Both Great and Small
Jan 30
Dancing Before God
Jan 06
Prayer Before Traveling
Jan 02
Prayer for the New Year
2015
Dec 29
Buechner on Compassion
Dec 22
Prayer for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
Dec 16
Prayer for the Joy of Advent
Dec 10
The Idol of Security
Dec 09
Religion and Culture
Nov 29
Prayer of Hope
Nov 26
Thanksgiving Prayer
Nov 22
Prayer for My Pettiness
Nov 15
A Prayerful Response
Nov 15
LaTeX-Skim Sync
Nov 09
To Dance Without Care
Nov 03
Prayer for All Saints Day
Oct 30
Reformation Day Prayer
Oct 23
Mistaken Priorities
Oct 19
For the Moments of Darkness
Oct 15
What Are You Afraid Of?
Oct 11
Prayer for a Unified Church
Oct 04
Gun Violence — A Prayer
Sep 29
Using Marked with Emacs
Sep 25
The Perfect Church
Sep 24
Dostoevsky on Hell
Sep 18
The Planted Church
Sep 08
No Innocence
Sep 08
Big-Haired Preachers
Sep 07
Hiding in God's Own Sanctuary
Sep 02
A Franciscan Blessing
Aug 30
The Water of Life
Aug 26
Seeking Humility
Aug 18
The Fabric of Our Lives
Aug 13
Go to Your Pastor for Depression?
Aug 11
Mercurial HGIgnore File
Aug 11
The Day is Short
Aug 10
Prayer for Sabbath
Aug 06
Blogging with Sublime Text
Aug 06
Family Sharing for Mac Apps
Aug 03
Pie in the Sky
Aug 03
Living in the Moment
Jul 31
Suscipe of St. Ignatius
Jul 28
A Glimpse of Beauty
Jul 22
The Gift of This Day
Jul 16
iPhone and Bluetooth Audio
Jul 12
Prayer for the Kingdom
Jul 12
Courage for Transformation
Jul 12
Strength Enough?
Jul 08
Open Dired From Shell
Jul 07
Religious Liberty Sunday, 2015
Jul 07
Guns, Cakes, and Gay Weddings
Jul 05
Between Love and Hate
Jun 23
Emacs on OS X
Jun 23
Happy Birthday, Sheri!
Jun 21
The Vanity of Our Hope
Jun 19
To America
Jun 18
Fixed Open in Chrome Alfred Workflow
Jun 17
Evil and Perception
Jun 16
Our Lives as Art
Jun 12
DuoLingo
Jun 12
LibriVox
Jun 11
Lives are Stories — A Prayer
Jun 11
The Deception of Power
Jun 04
Stringp, Nil Error in Emacs
Jun 02
Back to Emacs Prelude
Jun 01
Prayer for Trinity Sunday
May 29
Emacs Starter Kit
May 25
Love as Art
May 24
Prayer for Memorial Day, 2015
May 21
In Praise of an Unsafe Education
May 20
Blogging with Jekyll and Working Copy
May 19
Visit to a National Cemetery
May 14
Prayer for an Isolated People
May 13
Stories and Community
May 10
Prayer for Mother's Day
May 08
Unexpected Grace
Apr 29
Prayer for Justice
Apr 27
Prayer for Silence
Apr 15
Dostoevsky, Suffering, and the Prayer for the Week
Apr 05
Resurrection and Hope
Apr 05
Easter Prayer
Apr 04
Prayer for Holy Saturday
Apr 03
Good Friday Prayer
Apr 02
Maundy Thursday 2015
Mar 30
Triumph Over Democracy
Mar 30
Palm Sunday 2015
Mar 27
The Cross-Shattered Christ, Chapter 5
Mar 27
The Cross-Shattered Christ, Chapter 4
Mar 26
Prayer for Lent 5
Mar 16
Prayer for Lent 4
Mar 15
The Cross-Shattered Christ, Chapter 3
Mar 09
Santayana on Fanaticism
Mar 09
Wonder and Concepts
Mar 09
Prayer for Lent 3
Mar 08
Apostolic Living
Mar 07
The Cross-Shattered Christ, Chapter 2
Mar 05
Definition of 'Lawyer'
Mar 03
Prayer for Lent 2
Mar 02
Ice-T and Politics
Feb 24
Prayer for Lent 1
Feb 24
The Cross Shattered Christ, Chapter 1
Feb 22
The Danger of Thinking
Feb 18
Ash Wednesday Prayer
Feb 15
Transfiguration Sunday Prayer
Feb 14
Poem for my Valentine
Feb 11
Prayer for a Life that Affirms
Feb 11
Advice for Those About to be Tested
Feb 05
The Fine Line
Feb 03
Prayer for Epiphany 4
Feb 02
Faith and Doubt
Jan 27
Prayer for Resolutions
Jan 22
Can't Fix Stupid
Jan 21
Who is the Sparrow?
Jan 20
Relativism and the Rights of Women in Afghanistan
Jan 20
Scheming Swindlers
Jan 20
Advice from Chesterton
Jan 20
Christmas Prayer
Jan 20
The Duty of A Philosopher
Jan 20
Who Is My Enemy?
Jan 20
Stay Awake
Jan 20
Creating God in Our Own Image
Jan 20
Ordination Charge for Brian Warfield
Jan 20
Praying for Enemies
Jan 20
NRA Survey
Jan 20
Permanent Impermanence
Jan 20
Penn Jillette on Science and Religion
Jan 18
My New Jekyll Site
Jan 17
Why Jekyll?
Jan 17
Math Test
Jan 17
Posting from Github
Jan 16
Emacs Blog Test
Jan 16
Testing Jekyll
Jan 13
Explain Everything
Jan 13
Reinstalling Apps from Mac App Store
Jan 13
Sublime Text Build for MultiMarkdown
Jan 13
Reloading zshrc
Jan 13
Using Marked in Emacs
Jan 13
Search and Replace with Regular Expressions
Jan 13
Loyal Dissent Within the Church
Jan 13
the Fifth Sunday of Lent
Jan 13
Holy Week
Jan 13
Maundy Thursday
Jan 13
Good Friday
Jan 13
Holy Saturday
Jan 13
Prayer for Easter
Jan 13
Charge to the Church
Jan 13
The Second Sunday of Easter
Jan 13
the Third Sunday of Easter
Jan 13
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
Jan 13
Prayer for the Medicated Preacher
Jan 13
Memorial Day Prayer
Jan 13
Immersed in Love
Jan 13
Prayer for Compassion
Jan 13
Sadly So Often True
Jan 13
New Friends
Jan 13
For Sheri
Jan 13
The Third Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
Thoughts on Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby
Jan 13
Mercy, the Law, and Les Miserables
Jan 13
the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Jan 13
The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
Hard Thinking
Jan 13
A Parent's Love
Jan 13
The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
Links in Army Enterprise Email
Jan 13
The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
Talking About Suicide
Jan 13
The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
MH17 and Gaza
Jan 13
The Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
The Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
For Losses Endured
Jan 13
The Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
The Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
The Chains of Technology
Jan 13
Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost
Jan 13
Textbooks for Spring 2015
Jan 13
Christ the King Sunday
Jan 13
Thanksgiving Day Prayer
Jan 13
Go Into the Fray
Jan 13
Muffin Top of Hate
Jan 13
Love and Attention
Jan 13
Badass Philosophers
Jan 13
Third Sunday of Advent
Jan 13
For Those Who Help Us Grow
Jan 13
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Jan 13
A Christmas Poem
Jan 13
A Prayer for Wellness
Jan 13
Epiphany Sunday
2012
May 25
Scheming Swindlers
May 24
A Sordid Tale of Text Editors
2011
Dec 07
The Rights of Women in Afghanistan
Nov 30
Using Keynote in Class
Nov 23
Thanksgiving
Nov 23
Reinstalling Apps from the App Store
Jun 14
Exactly
May 20
A New Law
May 13
Calculating the End — Again and Again
May 13
A Living Mystery
May 08
Needs
Apr 16
Another One for the Brothers
Mar 30
The Coconut
Mar 25
To Speak Truly
Mar 17
Sleep Deprivation
Mar 16
Drawing Closer to God Through Quietness
Feb 23
1895 Eighth Grade Final Exam
Feb 14
To Listen
Jan 11
Tolerance
Jan 07
The Gospel, Period
2010
Dec 20
Augustine on Humility
Dec 16
Bob Feller (1918-2010)
Dec 16
The Rebel Mary
Dec 14
Perfect Christianity
Dec 14
If you could have only one thing for Christmas
Dec 10
Vanier on Love
Dec 03
Ethics Without Borders
Dec 03
A Chaplain's Ultimate Sacrifice
Dec 01
The Need for Community
Dec 01
On Not Understanding Prayer
Nov 25
Brokenness
Nov 24
Star Wars
Nov 23
Descartes First Edition
Nov 19
Surrender
Nov 17
Philosophy Street
Nov 12
Ouch
Nov 09
God in Our Lives
Nov 03
Perfection in Weakness
Oct 25
Baptist Millenials
Oct 22
The Christian Literary Underground
Oct 19
Talk or Talk About
Oct 05
Religious Knowledge Survey
Oct 01
Brief Habits as the Key to Living Forever
Sep 27
Rahner
Sep 17
Why Believe?
Sep 08
Did I Miss Anything?
Aug 27
De Unamuno on Arguments
Aug 27
Greatest Beatles Songs?
Aug 16
A Mosque in NYC
Aug 11
Advice for Christian Politicians
Jul 26
Thomas More on Labor
Jul 25
Even Preachers
Jul 15
Justice
Jul 15
Merton on Scripture
Jun 14
What's so funny?
Jun 14
Bruised for the Gospel
Jun 10
Pizza Dude Ethics
Jun 09
Messianic Delusions
May 05
Cognitive Biases Song
Apr 18
Another Great Quote from Chaplain School
Apr 18
Visit to Ft. Moultrie
Apr 18
Great Quote From Chaplain School
Apr 13
Back When I Could Run
Apr 08
English Only
Mar 30
If You Like Bugs...
Mar 29
Please!
Mar 23
The Happiness of Deep Conversations
Mar 20
Proverbs 31:8
Mar 04
National Procrastination Week
Feb 23
Hildebrand Conference
Feb 18
The Luxury of Cheap Melancholy
Feb 17
Al Staggs in Chapel
Feb 15
Tradition and Bad Tradition
Feb 15
The Jane Austen Specials
Feb 15
Pelikan on Tradition
Feb 08
Epictetus on Learning
Jan 30
Ice Storm
Jan 13
The Disaster in Haiti
2009
Dec 29
Starting Young
Dec 14
Change Blindness
Dec 14
Change Blindness
Dec 03
Readability
Dec 01
Weasels
Nov 25
Diversity of Figurines
Nov 24
Kierkegaard's Mission
Nov 23
Philosophers and Bums
Nov 16
We've Got Questions!
Nov 15
Hitchens
Oct 29
Kierkegaard on the Couch
Oct 25
The Monads
Oct 23
Caring for Pets after the Rapture
Oct 21
Car Accidents and Conditional Probabilities
Oct 21
Even More
Oct 14
Burning Bibles?
Oct 13
Schusterman Lecture
Oct 07
Brenner on Brahms
Oct 07
Art in the White House
Sep 29
Danto on Warhol
Sep 24
More Figurines
Sep 22
Not So Precious Moments
Sep 18
Cardboard Solicitation Signs
Sep 16
Intro Essay 1
Sep 14
William Alston, 1921-2009
Sep 10
Intro Essay 1
Sep 07
Lola and the Avocado
Sep 05
Humility
Sep 04
Happy Labor Day!
Sep 02
CT Quiz
Aug 29
Habitat
Aug 28
Triumph of the Will
Aug 25
Ellul on Prayer
Aug 20
Hugh Dancy on Philosophy
Aug 20
Online education more effective than classroom?
Aug 14
Good Advice
Jul 24
Stanford Encyclopedia Article on the Trinity
Jun 10
Seven Deadly Sins
Feb 19
Expectations and Grades
2008
Dec 12
Today's News
Nov 18
The Monty Hall Problem
Nov 07
Reconciliation and Hope
Nov 03
Election Tomorrow
Nov 01
Moral Relativism
Oct 29
Richard Dawkins and Harry Potter
Oct 28
Consciousness
Oct 25
Indifference
Oct 24
Academic Reference Software
Oct 22
Consumer Pornography
Oct 08
Concern for the Middle Class and Matthew 25
Aug 04
The Heat
Jul 15
Evangelical Atheists
Jun 18
Reading Kierkegaard
Jun 08
World Food Summit
Jun 02
Climate Change and Objectivity
Jun 01
Costa Rica
May 22
Vacation
May 19
International Aid and Religious Freedom
May 18
Millennium Development Goals