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The Crucible: Why I Hate This Awful Play (Part 4: No, the Salem Witch Trials were not like the Red Scare)

Posted on March 15, 2026 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 3 Comments

We have now come to my final post on Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. There are no real hysterical fireworks that happen in Act 4. The conclusion is straight...

Book Review/Literature and Poetry/Social and Cultural Issues

The Crucible: Why I Hate This Awful Play (Part 3: Act 3–The Insane Courtroom Scene)

Posted on March 12, 2026 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 4 Comments

Here in my third post on Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, we will look at the courtroom scene and the insanity that unfolds in Act Three. In this post, thoug...

Book Review/Literature and Poetry/Pop Culture

The Crucible: Why I Hate This Awful Play (Part 2: Act 2–Potholes and Plotholes)

Posted on March 11, 2026 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

Here in my second post on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, we’re going to look at Act Two. First, I’ll give an overview of Act Two, then I’ll make a few comments. ...

Book Review/Literature and Poetry/Pop Culture

The Crucible: Why I Hate This Awful Play (Part 1: Act 1)

Posted on March 9, 2026 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

This year is the first year I have ever had to teach Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Up until this year, I had never read it. It is set during the Salem witch tri...

Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 6: Book 2—Church Teaching vs. Heretics)

Posted on February 25, 2026 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

It has been three months since I last wrote anything here on my blog. I’m going to finally get around to get back into the swing of things by completing my seri...

Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 5: An Overview of the “Gnostic Bench”)

Posted on November 5, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

In this fifth post in my book analysis of Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I want to cover 1.24-31. In these chapters, Irenaeus provides his readers with a bird’s ey...

Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 4: Let’s Mock Heretics! And Let’s Admit Some Things Never Change)

Posted on November 2, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

Throughout Part 1 of Against Heresies, Irenaeus gives long, detailed, and extremely confusing explanations of all the teachings of the various Gnostic heretical...

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The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 3: The Core Teachings of the Christian Faith)

Posted on November 1, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

Here in Part 3 of my series on Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I’m going to focus Chapter 10 of Book 1, where, after detailing the particulars of Gnostic teachings ...

Biblical Studies/Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 2: Con-men, Gnostics, and Scholars)

Posted on October 12, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

Over this past year, as I have been reading and paraphrasing Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I knew that I was going to do a blog series on it. Now, here I am, read...

Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 1)

Posted on October 10, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

Over this past year of 2025, I have been engaged in a personal project involving reading through the two works of Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies and On the...

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