Category: history

  • Fulcrum

    Fulcrum

    There are moments that answer the question, “What would happen if everyone jumped at once?” D-day. All the entire allied nations prepared for this event for months. And they kept is secret. This moment changed history. No matter what we do, we stand in the shadow of these men. Every choice we make in the…

  • On Tricking Yourself

    On Tricking Yourself

    EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE A whole lot of things will click together and I have to write them down lest I forget them. This is more of a ramble than anything else, but maybe it will point us towards some conversations. This semester’s class on Church History is reading James Hitchcock’s History of the…

  • The Mask of Halloween

    NB: I edit and repost this essay most every year, I know. Archive has this going back to at least 2006, although it says there that I was reposting it again, so, at least 2005? Anyway, it’s still good. On the Hill of Tara, seat of the High Kings of Ireland, there is a mound…

  • The New Punic War

    The Church in Russia views Moscow as “The Third Rome”. It’s been this way for a while. Rome was Rome, but then Rome fell – and there was a filioque, but lay that aside as gently as you can. Then Constantinople was Rome, and the heathen Rus even tried to sack it. But then it…