Captian's Log Just Bones 8 Aug 2025 Across the ancient stone their flayed corpses were laid. The buzzards came and tore their flesh away. They were the only ministers, until now, who could reach this height. Bones…
Captian's Log To Time and Chance the Rest 11 Mar 20258 Mar 2025 I turn my back on the dying man and his spluttering breaths. I can feel his eyes following me as he drowns in his own blood. His wheezing voice calls…
Captian's Log Sighs in Babylon 18 Nov 2023 "There's always a horribly foreign element in everything you say; imperial, even," I sighed. "Even if I thought your meandering prevarications could somehow hold together long enough to constitute an…
Captian's Log Initial Thoughts: Speechless 23 Jun 2021 So, I got Michael Knowles' book the other day, Speechless. I've read up to chapter three, and so far, I highly recommend it. Despite my boasts of being a bibliophile,…
Captian's Log On the Verdict of the Chauvin Trial | Can We Have Faith in Our Institutions? 20 Apr 2021 The Chauvin Trial, and the verdict today, trouble me. On the face of it, whether or not the jury was honest in its decision seems moot. It seems that if…
Captian's Log Reflections on the Book of Habakkuk 27 Feb 20211 Mar 2021 The book of Habakkuk starts strangely; it starts with a question: "How long?" The prophet agonizes. The questions seem all too familiar in our secular age: God does not listen,…
Captian's Log Thoughts on “Social Capital” 16 Sep 202016 Sep 2020 Though the term "Social Capital" was new to me, the concept that certain people in the United States don't inherit the same starting position as others is fairly common, that…
Captian's Log Thoughts on “Racial Justice” 15 Sep 2020 I hate useless and euphemistic language. It is a personal quirk, but I prefer words to carry meaning, and for language to be a means of communication. The term "Racial…
Captian's Log Thoughts on Plato’s Republic 23 Apr 2020 Due to the Corona Panic, I have had more time on my hands than usual, and I have been finishing up something I started many moons ago, Plato’s Republic. I…
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