Simple Gifts

As an elementary school student, I remember reading for the first time Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. I was captivated by Crusoe's solitary ingenuity on the island, his trips back and forth to the foundered ship, his reconstruction of civilized life from the fundaments. It awakened in me a lifetime love of survival narratives, and a fascination with survival strategies and skills. If today I can forage...

Having not taught Plato's Gorgias since graduate school in the '90's, I had forgotten how rich and important this dialogue is to the Western tradition. Having now recorded the whole dialogue for Simple Gifts, I am delighted to share it with you. Gorgias was one of the most famous Sophists in the time of Classical Greece. He was one of a number of traveling teachers of the discipline of rhetoric, t...

Authored by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay to appear anonymously in New York papers under the pseudonym "Publius" in 1787 and 1788, the Federalist Papers aimed to rally public support for the proposed Constitution of the United States. As such, it is one of the most important sources for understanding the original intent of the US Constitution by those who participated in its const...

THE EVERLASTING MAN by Gilbert Kyle Chesterton Part Two: On The Man Called Christ Chapter One: The God in the Cave Gilbert Kyle Chesterton remains one of the great voices of Christian faith in the last century, and it is a tragedy that more Christians are not familiar with his work. C. S. Lewis credits Chesterton, and in particular The Everlasting Man, with displaying the rationality of the Christ...

"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks." This first line of Longfellow's poem has rung down across time, as his poem was meant to do. He wrote it in blank dactylic hexameter, reminiscent of Homer and Latin heroic verse. It was his most famous poem during his lifetime. The first three stanzas of the poem ("the Prelude") tell the story in precis. The French-speaking settl...

One last Christmas story to round out our holiday season! Enjoy! If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.net   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #je...

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.... For unto us child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peac...

This classic Christmas story speaks for itself. Enjoy! If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.net   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #ohenry #giftofthemagi #sacrifice #sacrificialgiving #christmas #christmasstory #christmastime #love #marriage #thechri...

One of my favorite Ariel poems of Eliot. I read this at my father's funeral in 1995, and have since committed it to memory. It contains what is perhaps the most powerful self-conscious understatement in all of literature, when the wise men arrive at the Christ-child's position: And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory. Satisfactory, indeed....

It is amazing to me that God sometimes gives us exactly what we need to put our feet back on the track. Having spent 25 years as an atheist professor of philosophy, I too was locked in a prison of my own devising. God used that "wasted" time to REASON me back to Christ, and now in The Christian Atheist podcast I seek to help others see Christ as the fusion of faith and reason. If you'd like to sup...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.n...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion.  https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.c...

The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion. https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.co...