The world needs young men who will devote their great energy to meaningful work, who will not follow a whining culture, who will stand out, stand up, and work hard. If you want a meaningful, worthwhile life, you must work hard. This is true for anyone, though my focus here is young men. Our culture [...]
Historical awareness can deliver us from both crushing despair and sophomoric narcissism just by placing our own situation in the context of broader human experience. Scholar Allan Bloom famously wrote, “Failure to read good books… strengthens our most fatal tendency—the belief that here and now is all there is.”[1] “Our most fatal tendency”... given the [...]
My prayer for you graduates is that you will be mature, responsible, hardworking people of conviction. God will empower you to do it. He will use you for His glory and that will be the best life you could have. This address was given at the 2020 graduation of the Augustine School in Jackson, TN. [...]
Some Christians wonder if there is value in reading pagan classics like “The Aeneid.” I argue that we do well to interact with the stories that have shaped our world and to see how they glimpse, and miss, the truths of divine revelation. I recently re-read The Aeneid with some of my older sons as [...]