If you would prefer to watch something than read if, you can find the video version of this here. We are a decent ways away from Reformation Day, but in my Omni V class, we are in full swing with some reformers. I assigned a discussion questions for my students and their families to talk about …
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How do Cicero, Trump, and the French Revolution Fit Together?
If you would like to see this instead of read it, you may find the video here. Welcome to another episode of The Doctor’s In. Today, we are looking back in order to look ahead, which is the right way to view history. Mankind has a weird way of repeating itself, getting into similar cycles that …
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How to Get Ahead by Looking Behind
A Christian’s Need for Review If you would prefer to watch this instead of reading it, here is a link to the video. Welcome back to another episode of The Doctor’s In. Today, I am drinking beer because if one is talking about Martin Luther, the only thing to do is drink beer. Now, I don’t have …
The Doctor is In
If you would prefer to see this post rather than read it, you can find the video for it here. Hello and welcome to the first episode of The Doctor’s In. This is something that has been brewing in me for a few years now, and it is now time to do something about it. I …
No One Gets Out of Life Alive
Prepare to Be Irrelevant As a father, I want to give my kids a certain kind of life. Life requires work. It requires vision. It requires faith above all else. Faith in a sovereign God is the only thing that keeps me sane these days. It allows me to work my hardest, love the rest …
Getting Them from There to Here
For a guy that was born with a speech impediment, it is interesting that talking has been my job for the last 11 years. Unrelated to that, I misspeak a lot. It’s probably genetic from my mother, but we’ll just keep that under the house. Adults don’t seem to care all that much when you …
What makes a Leader?
A Commendation to our U.H. I have often said about myself that I make a great number 2. I can lead when called upon. I will lead if no one else is. But my preference is to stand behind a good leader and make them better. To take things off their plate, so they don’t …
Glory in the Mundane
Achilles, King Arthur, Aragorn, Anakin. Heroes. Every young man’s dream. I grew up with a world in my head. These men swirled through it. I always wanted to be the hero, to swing a sword and save someone, anyone. I didn’t really care who. I just wanted to matter. The story that was my real …
A Glitch in the System?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb changed how I looked at the world a few years ago. Black Swan, Skin In The Game, and Antifragile taught me a new way to analyze the world and myself. You should check out all three of these books. For today though, one of the things I took from him is that within every system, there …
Is Paideia Just a Fancy Word for Education?
There is something about old words that has been lost over time. Our society and language have been dumbed down to the point where things only have surface meaning. It is quite terrible. There are some great words that we have lost like arete for virtue and trouthe for truth. Arete and trouthe are both …
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