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Francis Schaeffer and the Arts: A Retrospective

Though he is an easy target for critics, Dr. Francis Schaeffer's work on art has held up better since his death than many have claimed.

Jake Meador

Happiness Drives Sacrifice

In which Calvin explains the connection between a Christian's happiness and their capacity for sacrifice and service.

E. J. HutchinsonPolitical TheoryPolitical Theology

An Introduction to the Reformed Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms

Looking at the work of Calvin, Eric Hutchinson explains why framing political theology questions in terms of "church v state" is a basic category error.

Matthew LoftusCultureHealth & Medicine

I love candy, but I'm glad my wife won't let me eat it all the time

If you eat intellectual junk food, you will get moral diabetes. Which leads to cultural amputations and political dialysis. And terrible-analogy insulin.

Jake Meador

The Abolition of Troy Chatham

Those who accuse Wendell Berry of idealizing the past simply aren't reading him closely enough.

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

What Wendell Berry Gets Wrong About Wendell Berry

Don't let the particulars of Wendell Berry's vision hinder you from learning from the principles.

Jake MeadorEconomicsc.s. lewis

The Sense of Ownership is Always to be Encouraged

Lewis, writing as Screwtape, on the question of how one uses “their” time:

Jake Meador

Sertillanges on the Intellectual Virtues

According to Sertillanges, the good and the true flourish in the same soil and so they cannot be ultimately separated.

Jake Meadorc.s. lewis

The Future is Least Like Eternity

CSL in Screwtape writing about the relationship between vice and obsession with the future:

Jake Meador

Sertillanges on the Amateur Scholar

Sertillanges counsels those aspiring scholars who, due to other obligations, think they lack the time to do real scholarship.

Jake Meador

The Jingling Bells of Publicity

A. D. Sertillanges offers a devastating rebuke of much of the work done by today's "public intellectuals."

Jake Meador

Plough Magazine: The Hole in Wendell Berry's Gospel

Plough Magazine features a common but wrong-headed critique of Berry's work.