What We’re Reading
Dante, The Inferno. A great joy and hidden benefit of teaching is when you get to revisit great texts because they are part of your teaching load…
He Would Not Live Long: The Postwar World in W.H. Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles”
While many great thinkers and philosophers have sought to analyze the brutality and sheer devastation of World War II, they can never quite compete with the work…
Deliverance
Splinters of broken thought piercing my skin, Demons dancing in my head, calling names, Sharp-toothed parasites wearing me thin, Gashing into my flesh with stone that maims…
Liberal Education and Free Society
As Irving Babbitt writes in Literature and the American College, “The spread of this scientific positivism, with its assimilation of man to nature, has had especially striking…
Mircea Eliade’s Dialectic of the Sacred and Martin Heidegger ’s Metaphysics
Although Mircea Eliade used concepts and notions specific to Western historical and philosophical thinking in his studies and research, he is an author whose intellectual formation owes…
Augustine’s Humility of Preaching
Saint Augustine is the towering figure who looms over western theology. Almost all people are familiar with his name through the Confessions, his semi-autobiographical work. Others know…
Literary Revelations: On William Franke and the Bible
Over the past half-century, literary approaches reinvigorated biblical studies. They did not reject the regnant source criticism, but they did reject its worst tendency to treat the…
40th International Meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society
40th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY American Political Science Association Meeting September 5-8, 2024 Philadelphia, PA Friends, I share the schedule for our annual…
Wild Geese Calling
In the rhythm of the current, cool against my feet descending into deeper pools, the calls of wild geese snatch up my attention. My vision is arrested…
From Manichaeism to Politics: New Ukrainian Research Provides Additional Evidence for Eric Voegelin’s Conception
Eric Voegelin’s approach to modern ideologies is often criticized for its overly general framework. However, the case in Ukrainian history provides specific evidence supporting some of his…
My Experience at Ralston College
Scorching rays flooded every nook of bare land. The wine-dark Aegean pulsed gently, cooling the broiling landscape with fresh ripples of saltwater. I descended a stone stairway…
The Blessings of the Unplugged Life
In the last few weeks, my life has been brimming with various commitments and changes. To name a few, my husband and I moved, we then traveled…
Martha and Mary
She just sat there listening, that was all He wanted, not heavy meals, or deep sighs Of self-martyrdom, just to hear his call Was all he asked…