Blog Annoying Critics “I wish you would tell my pastor that ‘the love of money is the root of all evil.’ Money is…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMarch 3, 2020
Blog Without Guile So Little Women didn’t win the Oscar for Best Film. It’s only win was for costume design. I’m in no…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellFebruary 18, 2020
Blog Moving the Goalposts and Kicking the Can Football season is at last over, but imagine this scenario. Your team is ahead by a point or two. Your…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellFebruary 4, 2020
Blog Crabs in a Bucket I’d never heard the phrase before -- “Crabs in a bucket.” Robert Leonard, affectionately known around here as “Dr. Bob,”…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJanuary 21, 2020
Blog Philately, Midrash, and Midwives This story doesn’t have a beginning. I lost it. Maybe you can help me find it. I thought it began…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 24, 2019
Blog The Power of Memes Not that long ago, I didn’t know the word meme. Then, if I recall correctly, when I first encountered it,…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 10, 2019
Blog Please Give Blood I’m a pretty regular blood donor. At a recent donation, I ran into an acquaintance. Not really a friend, but…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 3, 2019
Blog God is not Binary “Why stop at three?” This was the question a Jewish religious scholar raised about a set of essays on the…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 19, 2019
Blog God is/is not Liberal You may wish to read my earlier post, God is/is not Conservative It’s only fairly recently that “liberal” became a…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 5, 2019
Blog God is/is not Conservative Conservative. It’s such a loaded term these days. Every blog. Every sermon. Every prayer. Every comment. Every word is run…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellOctober 22, 2019