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Elizabeth Stice

Elizabeth Stice is a professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she also serves as the assistant director of the Frederick M Supper Honors College. She is the editor in chief of Orange Blossom Ordinary.

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Elizabeth Stice

Elizabeth Stice is a professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she also serves as the assistant director of the Frederick M Supper Honors College. She is the editor in chief of Orange Blossom Ordinary.

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

Baa, Ram, You?

The One and the Ninety-Nine rests on a 'simple' premise: 'Each of us is torn between belonging and differentiation; few ever learn to manage that tension.'

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

The Myth of the American West

Whether or not readers agree with Nelson's interpretation of the American Dream, many will find the people in this book worth reading about.

Elizabeth SticeFamily

The Goodness of Caring for Other People's Children

Raising virtuous and mature people requires an immense amount of work—and when that work can be shared amongst trusted friends everyone is helped.

Elizabeth SticeFormation

The Good News About Bad Work Days

A large portion of our fidelity at work consists not in finding the just-right vocation, but in persisting in holiness and love when work is unsatisfying.

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

Why History Matters

David McCullough's final work is a testament to the conviction that drove all his work—that history matters immensely and imparts wisdom to its students.

Elizabeth SticeTechnologyFormation

The Real You

It’s not the real world, but it is the real you.

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

Gifts Given, Gifts Received

'Mailman' is a frequently delightful reflection on civic life and what holds America together even in an era of low trust.

Elizabeth SticeFormation

The Gift of a Toothache

While no sane person would say, like Dostoevsky's Underground Man, that toothache is 'enjoyable', such banal pains can be spiritually enlightening.

Elizabeth SticeTechnologyBook Reviews

On the Nature of Things

Liz Pelly's 'The Mood Machine' lays bare the corrosive effects of relating to art in a purely commercialized, consumer-driven way.

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

Go Slow and Repair Things

Balzac's 'Wrong Side of Paris' offers a compelling account of how Christian goodness can transform the world in quiet and beautiful ways.

Elizabeth SticeTheology

The Centrality of Consolation

Though we do not deserve it, we crave and desperately need mercy—and the consolation of providence is that through God we can receive it.

Elizabeth SticeCurrent PoliticsBook Reviews

Finding Ourselves in Augustine's "City of God"

The priorities and concerns that animated Augustine's political thought are often quite foreign to us today, which is what makes him a valuable guide.