What We’re Reading
Kim Paffenroth and Maggie Ann Labinski (Eds.), Augustine and Gender. Few figures in Christianity loom as large over the history of Western civilization as Saint Augustine. One…
Eight Ways of Looking at the Ozarks
After Basho, Buson, and Issa I Even in the Ozark Mountains hearing the bob-white’s call, I long for the Ozarks. II The origin of sound: a frog…
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Plato’s Theocentric Cosmogony
Consistent with a Platonic hermeneutic program whose main premises I outlined in a previous essay, I will now present a first application of this unified vision. Specifically,…
The Spell of Fairy-Tales
Preserving The Spell is a book by Armando Maggi who is a professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. From Maggi’s perspective the…
“Do it Again”: Monet, Chesterton, and the Holiness of Repetition
When one thinks of artistic impressionism, Claude Monet is probably one of the first names that springs to mind. This is for good reason—Monet and impressionism are…
A Rich Man’s Lament
I did nothing, why are you blaming me For that scabby beggar once sat outside What happened to be my gate? Why me? Burning while he stands…
Grand Cayman Storm
A barge looms ghostly on the gray horizon and, like a vision, fades into the storm silently; heavily and patiently into the fast approaching rain. If it…
What the Biden Administration Has Taught Me
We are coming up on four years of Joe Biden as President of the United States, though he is dropping out of the presidential election, and I…
The Imperial Party Has No Clothes
Joe Biden’s candidacy and presidency was a promise to return to normalcy after one term of Trump’s erratic administration. Far from this return to normalcy, global chaos…
Confronting the Great Awokening
Writing in 2006, French political philosopher Pierre Manent characterized the student uprisings of 1968 as “an explosion of mildness or softness, an explosion of what Tocqueville called…
The Wind is the Blowing: A Review of Crooked Plow
…the wind doesn’t blow, the wind is the blowing… ~ Itamar Vieira Junior In the Bahia province of Brazil, the rivers and trees pulsate with the…
The Trap of False Traditions
In a complex world, humans have evolved to get by on simple rules of thumb. Our evolutionarily adapted instincts and heuristics let us quickly make good enough…
Samaritan Woman
Heat-trodden hardness stinging into foot, Labouring under sun’s skin-parching glare, Lumbering her water-jug along rut, Carved by those who would despise and stare. Another outcast standing by,…
Piper Alpha
In honour of the 167 who died in the Occidental (Oxy) Piper Alpha oil platform disaster in the North Sea, 6th - 7th July 1988, British, American,…