The influential professor and educator John Senior proposed a bottom-up approach to cultural transformation. “Restorations never start in the collapsing tops but always in the dull low places of simple hearts,” he argued in “The Restoration of Christian Culture.” In his biography of Senior, Fr. Francis Bethel added, “Rebuilding culture calls for quiet and hidden work
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Every day a new poem from the Society of Classical Poets arrives in my inbox. Published recently were two poems, “Beelzebots” and “Blabberbots,” by Susan Jarvis Bryant. First up is “Blabberbots”: The day he called that twaddle-bot a she Instead of just a simple, soulless it, Is when my smitten eyes began to see This chatter-slut was stirring
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Despite the fact that God’s existence is hotly debated, the existence or non-existence of God has little effect on most of our lives. But if one really understands what is meant by “God,” then the existence of that God would make all the difference. What is Existence … FOR US? We think about our own existence in
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I never took “social studies.” To this day, I’m not really sure what it even is! But every year when we took the state-standardized test as homeschoolers, my scores – as well as those of my siblings – came back in the 90th percentile or higher for all subjects, including social studies. This had nothing
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While I was in college, I got into a habit that first made me laugh, then gave me pause. When I went to wash my hands, I would simply stick my hands in the sink and, for a split second, wonder why the water didn’t turn on. It was because I hadn’t turned the handle
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Death and punctuation share a common function. Both are endings, one marking a completed sentence, the other a completed life. Make metaphors of some punctuation marks, and they can represent certain philosophies regarding the afterlife. A period, for example, might indicate the demise of an atheist, that is, life is over and done with. The
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