On Living Sacrifices and the Walking Dead
Whatever Paul means by “present your bodies a living sacrifice,” he cannot mean “repay God’s mercy with self-denial.”
A Brandenburg Concerto Touchdown Dance
The Brandenburg Concertos present a lovely combination of variety and unity – and this is what makes them so meaningful.
The Inconsolable Secret and the State of Men
How an eighty-year old children’s book offer hope and peace in a lonely world
Atheism Is Irrational (argued C.S. Lewis)
The humanities matter in a world dominated by scientific thought and technological advances because without the humanities we can’t think about science and technology properly
Reflections on a Christmas Poem
Anne Ridler’s “Christmas and the Common Birth” is one of the most thought provoking poems I’ve ever read at Christmas time, and worth quoting in full: Christmas declares the glory of the flesh: And therefore a European might wish To celebrate it not at mid winter but in spring, When physical life is strong, When …
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the Spirit of the Age
At a crucial moment in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, protagonist Brutus bemoans the “spirit of the age,” a disposition toward tyranny that allows Caesar to assume the power of a king over Rome’s erstwhile republic. Brutus and his friends conspire to defeat this insidious evil by murdering Caesar and restoring popular government to Rome. As modern …
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Satan Is Just Like Me: On Milton, Sympathy, and Protagonists
Classic literature gives readers a glimpse of their own human condition, and then offers them the comfort of fellowship
