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CultureFormationEddie LaRow
Lincoln was a great man and leader not despite his frequent melancholy, but because he kept going even under the weight of melancholy.
Calvin StapertCultureMusic
Stravinsky rightly said that our freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly we limit our field of action and the more we surround ourselves with obstacles.
TechnologyFormationHayden NesbitMagnifica Humanitas
The experience of resonance will not be manufactured by tech overlords.
Book ReviewsCharles Carman
There are domains where disenchantment may be unfit for, perhaps even a distraction from, a far more pressing crisis than belief in the mysterious. We need more than one framework to diagnose the modern crisis.
TechnologyFamilyFormationIsaac DeValois
Christian families will be greatly helped by this little device for its simple and convenient opportunity to help conduct catechesis.
TechnologyTheologyAmy MantravadiMagnifica Humanitas
The call for Christians is therefore to be like Nehemiah and his fellow countrymen rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. We must not be “passive spectators of social and cultural fractures, nor mere commentators on what is crumbling.”
Jake MeadorChurch
When people don't care about policy and procedure, institutions are unequipped to deal with radicals who undermine the institution's purity and peace.
Eddie LaRow
All in all, the modern self is remarkably free and remarkably miserable. Liberated from limits and boundaries, we find we are not walking toward anything — only away from something.
Jackson GreerBook Reviews
Christie wrote intelligent and insightful novels that, as she knew it, are middlebrow. While not all Christie books are of the same quality, her famous novels rightfully earned their place as classics of the genre, and she is worth a closer reading.
Benjamin PetersonBook Reviews
So much seems to be going wrong in our society. There is so much dissent, there are so many acts of violence, and there is so much division about the
Nadya WilliamsTechnology
The work that we do, especially in taking care of each other, is exhausting. Creative work is challenging too for many, who understandably grow eager to outsource it now. But could such simple daily acts be good for us, even an integral part of what makes us human?
Elizabeth SticeFormation
For most of church history, we internalized key texts by transcribing them. One great books prof has brought that practice back to her students.