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Keith E. BuhlerembodimentLiberal ArtsDevotionalTheology and Practice

Fasting for Strength

"Don't give into some illusion and lose your power, but even if you have, if you've lost all will and control, they come back when

Keith E. BuhlerUncategorized

Garfield Minus Garfield

Not as funny as would be (a much hoped-for) "White people like Garfield" post, But checkout the delightfully sad, somber, existential, anti-climactic commentary on modern life

Anodosembodiment

Conclusion: Personhood, Not Propoganda

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part X Conclusion: Personhood, Not Propoganda Having reinterpreted fashion as an incarnational art form and modesty as a sort of aesthetic and moral check on that […]

Tex

What to like...if you're white.

Nothing profound today. Instead, given that many of the folks here at Mere Orthodoxy are interested in understanding, critiquing, and improving American culture, Stuff While People Like is quickly becoming a must-read blog.  The attention to detail, and the humorous […]

Anodosembodiment

Look Good and Sin Not

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part IX – Look Good and Sin Not How does one take the body-imaging activity of clothing into consideration when choosing clothes to wear? A wise […]

Anodos

What's So Bad About Immodesty?

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part VIII – What’s So Bad About Immodesty? This incarnational approach can now be applied to the second problem of fashion, that of modesty. If […]

Keith E. BuhlerEducation

Great Books Colleges and Universities

The Modern educational experiment has run its course. It does not seem to be working. Illiteracy is at an all-time high. High school completion continues to lower, especially in areas such as the inner city of L.A., where completion rates […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The California Homeschooling Crisis

Long-time readers of this blog know that I spent two years providing supplemental education for home-school students in California (through the excellent program Torrey Academy). Because of that,

Tex

Grassroots Initiative: The Freedom Players

Gambling is bad for the economy, bad for the individual, and bad for the society at large. Various groups of concerned citizens have been trying to make this point in various ways over the past years as greater and greater […]

Anodosembodiment

Nature and the Aim of Fiction

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part VII – Nature and the Aim of Fiction Here we may turn to another great Christian theorist, Ms. Flannery O’Connor.  In her excellent essay […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

Wheatstone Academy: A Promo Video Worth Watching

Some programs are so good, so powerful, and so important, that their impact is nearly impossible to describe to the outside world. The Torrey Honors Institute of Biola University is one such program. Wheatstone Academy, an offshoot, is another. Since […]

AnodosembodimentLiberal ArtsTheology and Practice

Towards an Incarnational Aesthetic

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part VI - Towards a Christian Aesthetic Now that this first principle of Christian aesthetics has