This category provides short essays written by Dr. Ron Miller. All of the essays were written for Ron’s website and date back a few years. The most recent one was written on 5/1/2011, just three days before he passed away.
Watching Republicans wave signs of “The Country First” I sense once again the iconic character of this election. On the one hand, we have a leprously white old rich guy. His world is “the country” and whatever lies beyond its borders is there only to serve this country’s interests. He represents a long tradition of …
This was a short play that Ron wrote for “something” at Lake Forest College and Common Ground. I found this tucked in an email that he had sent me in May of 2008. If anyone has any further knowledge about how this was used, please share in the comments section below. Jesus: a Life Staging: …
It was a hot St. Louis summer and I was trying to teach Metaphysics to a classroom of undergrads. I heard giggling from somewhere in the room, right after I had announced that the homework assignment was an essay on “the God problem”. I repeated the assignment, and again heard the same tinkling of laughter. …
A man enjoys sex with a male prostitute while using a mind-altering substance. There seems to be nothing newsworthy about such a statement. It’s happening everday all over the world. But when the man is an ordained minister, the pastor of a church, and the president of a national religious body, as well as a …