The Wandering Heretic

I already mentioned my Daughter graduated from High School as a homeschooled child. Here is the video the class of 11 seniors put together that was shown at the ceremony. I know this has been done in other venues, but they still put in some nice touches. I know it is my [...]

(For the record, the church I discuss below is not where where my daughter graduated. In case this institution wishes to punish those who homeshool within their walls based on this post, please note that I do not attend there. We merely had some friends who graduated on the day discussed and we [...]

Though I have been inactive for a couple of weeks, I have not given up blogging. It is one of my few remaining passions in life. However another passion took precedence for the last few weeks. My daughter graduated out if High School Homeschooling last week. About 11 mothers, headed up by [...]

In my mental exercise or excursus into the benefits of the Christian/Enlightenment dichotomic dance that buttresses the American Experience, I listed several witnesses of the dangers a divorce between the two influences engenders. My first draft of that post had six instances; the final version—if for nothing other than length—had four. I now [...]

In September of 2007, the internet columnist Kathie Shaidle changed the name of her blog from Relapsed Catholic to Five Feet of Fury. At that time, I posted an article basically expressing my fears the Shaidle had started on the slope downward toward compromise. I assumed eventually that formally cutting her ties to [...]

I am going to tell you a story; it is one that I think is pretty funny. But to get the humor you have understand something of my nature. It is no accident that my pseudonym for this blogsite is the fictional Kwai Chang Caine. My heroes when I was growing up [...]

As Gentiles we have been engrafted into Israel, and as such are part of the people of Israel. That has been my focus in many of my last posts. Now I think I need to tell you why this has become so important to me. For you see, unlike other nations, Israel was [...]

We had a death in the family on New Year’s Day, so the year started out with a whimper and a tear. We are in a whirlwind as my wife prepares to visit her relatives and attend the funeral while the rest of the family tears down the Christmas decorations without her supervision (always [...]

Last year, Eric Wedge and Mark Shapiro were the bane of Cleveland’s existence. A noted columnist had this to say in 2006:
I’ll admit, I am not the biggest fan of Wedge these days. His inability to be an effective in-game manager, be it handling pitchers, executing several different offensive/defensive strategies, using his bench, [...]

This weekend I took some time off from watching the Cleveland Indians implode in order to do some community service for the children of Broadview Heights, Ohio. For my third year in a row, along with others from a local theatre group, I played a character in a wooded pathway called the “Enchanted Hollow.” [...]