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Protected: Hurting with God: Post #2
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Protected: I Want To Be Healed (Introduction)
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My Personal Theology (updated February 2025)
It should surprise absolutely no one who knows me well that I spend way too much time putting myself and others in boxes. In fact, I once wrote a post in which I confessed the sin that is sometimes present in doing just that. In any case, since my return to historically orthodox Christian theology Continue reading
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Never Forget
I was 11 years old and in the sixth grade. I heard the news at school but didn’t really understand. Kids kept being picked up by worried parents; rumors flew that Houston would be next. I got home that afternoon and sat in front of CNN until my parents got home while watching the planes–the footage Continue reading
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Never Forget
I was 11 years old and in the sixth grade. I heard the news at school but didn’t really understand. Kids kept being picked up by worried parents; rumors flew that Houston would be next. I got home that afternoon and sat in front of CNN until my parents got home while watching the planes–the footage Continue reading
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Fall and the Coming Renewal (4)
Every year around this time I move from hating (but tolerating) the summer sun and heat to actively hating it. The reason for this (I surmise) is that this is the time of the year when school restarts, and it seems monstrous to me to have school starting while it is summer outside! In any Continue reading
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Lent 2017
We are getting close to the beginning of Lent (Ash Wednesday is just around the corner on March 1). Lent is a big time of the year for me. Liturgically, I don’t like it as much as Advent. I prefer the hopefulness and longing of Advent to the repentance and asceticism of Lent. I prefer Continue reading
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Rose Against the White
As the sun sets in a sky bedecked with crimson and gold, she opens her dancing green eyes, which glint like emeralds against the shadows. She is rose against the white, lying among the pillows in the splendor of her hair, framed only by the flickering light of a candle in the corner that softly Continue reading
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Beauty
Beauty is the word that shall be our first. Beauty is the last thing which the thinking intellect dares to approach, since only it dances as an uncontained splendor around the double constellation of the true and the good and their inseparable relation to one another. Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient Continue reading
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Art and the Naked Body
I have been upfront on this blog about how my pornographic past, along with the purity culture of which I was a part, warped my sexuality in ways that are still damaging. Of the various effects my past has had on me, one is that it has so warped my desires that I have had Continue reading
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Election 2016 Thoughts
Since the election a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been searching for the right words to express the way that I feel about things. I wrote a lengthy (and now deleted) post on Facebook the Wednesday morning after the election expressing my frustrations and fears. Since then, I have dropped my use of Facebook (I’m Continue reading
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A Candle in the Dark: My Spiritual Practices
I am what psychologist Richard Beck calls a “winter Christian.” By that I mean that my relationship with God largely centers around my struggle to make sense of the crap in the world. I am not a critic of God or of the Church or of the Faith, but I am sensitive to shallowness and Continue reading
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Great Books vs Technocracy and Academics
The biggest difference that I see between the kind of education I received and the kind of education my students are receiving is located in the telos toward which each system of education is ordered. The kind of education I received was ordered toward me having success in college or in the workforce; it was Continue reading
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Never Forget
I was 11 years old and in the sixth grade. I heard the news at school but didn’t really understand. Kids kept being picked up by worried parents; rumours flew that Houston would be next. I got home that afternoon and sat in front of CNN until my parents got home while watching the planes–the footage Continue reading
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Upon a Suburban Morning
Upon a suburban morning I watched–green plumed and curious– a bird alight in my back yard. He noticed the sprinkler and he, seeking water to bathe himself, hopped beneath its glittering drops before floating to the fence and then to my neighbor’s hidden yard beyond the knowledge of the sky. –This, of course, whole I Continue reading
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Fall and Coming Renewal (2)
This is my annual post about how I hate the summer and love the fall. This year, I just updated to reflect my current context a post I had written on this topic two years ago. You can read the rest of the posts in this genre here, here, and here. * * * In the book Continue reading
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A Summer Sabbatical (of sorts)
Officially, my last day of work before the summer vacation is Wednesday, but I expect to be done with everything tomorrow. One of the perks of being a teacher is having summers off, though they aren’t as long as they used to be! This summer break, the first summer after Catherine’s birth and after moving Continue reading
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Addressing the Transgender Phenomenon: a Christian Response
***Updated February 2021 to reflect better terminology. ***Dr. Preston Sprinkle has an excellent series of interviews called The Diversity of Trans. You can find the first interview here. Introduction In light of the recent “bathroom bills” and debates over teaching the acceptance of trans accounts of gender identity in public schools (if you have questions about Continue reading
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The Virtuous Life: Education
Socrates: Education is not what the professions of certain men assert it to be. They presumably assert that they put into the soul knowledge that isn’t in it, as though they were putting sight into the blind. Glaucon: Yes, they do indeed assert that. Socrates: But the present argument, on the other hand indicates that Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet
G. C. Jeffers 