Religion and the Postmodern Student
For this semester I will be offering my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. By the second week…
For this semester I will be offering my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. By the second week…
Toward A Sacramental Poetics. Edited by Regina M. Schwartz and Patrick J. McGrath. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Commuting into the city on…
Matt Walsh. Church of Cowards. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2022; 2020. In May of 1994, a group of Christians signed an agreement titled “Evangelicals and Catholics Together.”…
(Egyptian, c. 1500 BCE, now in the Turin Museum) i Everything you would need and perhaps more: a game of senet, for two players, with its perfect…
How much hangs on that denial – or on its contradictory, that my mind is my brain! If our minds are our brains, as I once thought,…
Technology is often conceived as an extension of our body. A misleading conception. Consider our cameras: they are not mere or innocent extensions of our eyes. They…
A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present. Rens Bod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. A New…
Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime: Past Principles and Present Challenges. David W. Livingstone, ed.. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. There is…
Jarosław Duraj. The Role of Metaxy in the Political Philosophy of Eric Voegelin. Peter Lang Press, 2021. Jarosław Duraj has penned an important study of Eric…
Todd Still and Jason Myers, eds. Rhetoric, History, and Theology: Interpreting the New Testament. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. “Any scholar approaching the New Testament is confronted…
Thomas A. Spragens. Capitalism and Democracy: Prosperity, Justice and the Good Society. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Professor Spragens specializes in modern…
The pseudonymous “Robot Philosopher,” following Sam Harris, suggests that since we do not choose our preferences, we do not have free will. This is an odd line…
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “The Lark Ascending” falls into that delicious category for me, of classical pieces I discover upon awakening. On weekdays I set my iPad alarm…
I don’t enjoy competition. By that, I’m not intending to reject anyone’s marketplace of skills or services. It’s just my sincere personal confession. For example, I was…
Untrained children represent a formidable danger to a society committed to trapping nature in the straightjacket of ideological demands and expectations. Insofar as those children have not…