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Crouch and Culture: Andy Crouch’s Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling
The Christian religion is a paradox. The kingdom of God, the New Testament tells us, is not of this...
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Serenity Prayers: Theme and Variation on Life’s Tough Judgment Calls
I’m a Taowinist, a cross between a Taoist and a Darwinist. I remember the night I realized it. I...
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Berlusconi’s Ego-Land
“Nothing would count as a fulfillment in a world in which literally nothing is important but self-fulfillment.” —Charles Taylor,...
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Empedocles
Empedocles of Aragas is believed to have lived in the fifth century B. C. E. (G. S. Kirk and...
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Impressions of Italy and the European Union in 2009 – Part II.
Continued from Part I. On a more political level there is something even more ominous and troubling than the...
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Shoe-Shifting: To put yourself in their shoes you’ve got to be able to get out of yours
F. Scott Fitzgerald said “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...
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Toward a Post-Secular Europe? A Review Essay
Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations by Peter Berger, Grace Davie and Effie Fokas, Ashgate, London, 2008;...
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Envisioning a Civilization Recovery Plan
What knowledge contained in what books of science, culture, and civilization would you most want to pass on to...
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The Elder Pliny and the First Book on Natural History
There can be no science without data on everything we see around us: not just plants and animals, rivers...
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Impressions of Italy and the European Union in 2009 – Part I
This past summer, I was in the EU for five weeks, more specifically in Italy. Even in the era...
