What We Carry
Aeneas, remembering, and our responsibility to the past, the present, and the future I have been teaching the Aeneid in my Core Texts classes, and one image has stayed with me. It … Read more
The Ransom Project
The Ransom Project is a Tactical Faith initiative. We are a collaborative effort to support and promote mere christianity, as well as apologetics, philosophy, and of course theology.
The Man at the Gate
A Second Dialogue Between Aristotle and Job: Wealth, Honor, and Life at the City Gate Job sat among the ashes. Aristotle sat beside him, listening. For a while, neither spoke. … Read more
Can Aristotle Answer Job?
Aristotle speaks… ARISTOTLE: May I sit? JOB: The others did. ARISTOTLE: Were they helpful? JOB: For the first seven days, they said nothing. ARISTOTLE: And afterward? JOB: You might consider staying with their original approach. Aristotle … Read more
The Humility of Descartes
Doubt, knowledge, and what happens when we “why” ourselves into chaos I have been teaching René Descartes this week in my Core Texts class, and I’ve noticed something about him … Read more
Is That It?
it is good to wait in silence for the salvation of the Lord “Is that it?” Someone asked that question after hearing Taps at the Alabama National Cemeteryduring our 30 Days of … Read more
We Have the Technology. Do We Have the Wisdom?
Prometheus, twenty-four notes, and the things machines cannot replace A recording can play Taps. That is an obvious fact, but it is also the reason I have spent so much … Read more
The Ghost is Real
The rooster at Elsinore, Horatio’s clause, and the ghosts that find their way back in Shakespeare’s Hamlet does not open with the prince, the new king, or the queen. It … Read more
There Also I Meet Myself
Reminiscence, Augustine’s halls, and the last rooms of 2001: A Space Odyssey By the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dave Bowman has left the spacecraft. He stands in a … Read more
The Looking Never Stopped
What fifty-eight and fifty-three years have taught me about the kind of attention that lasts “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for … Read more
What Kind of Speech Sustains
Lewis, the second-person perspective, and the places that still remember Last week, a small, almost trivial complaint set off a larger argument. A college student associated with Turning Point USA … Read more