Love draws you up, but it does not sweep you off your feet. Not yet. Charity paradoxically manages to give you both heaven and earth. Jesus, Paul, and indeed all Christians, keep their sights high and their feet firmly planted. Saint Paul can catch you off guard. Just when you think you have a grip [...]
We modern defenders of the liberal arts have to choose between Socrates’ vision and Cicero’s vision: Are we citizens of a particular soil and a particular place, or are we connected—across time and space—to all good men and God? A few weeks ago, I had the grand privilege of attending a Liberty Fund conference on [...]
Perhaps you looked back over your year and rejoiced. Maybe it was a bitter one, and you can’t wait to get 2024 in the rearview mirror. Or maybe the review process just made you cringe: you looked at that treadmill you bought in January and wondered at what point it became a coat rack. Whether [...]