Literature

Building for the Future: Wendell Berry’s Poem ‘A Vision’3
- Culture, Featured, Literature
- September 13, 2024
Often, we want quick fixes. We live in the tyranny of the present moment, and it’s hard for us to take a long-term view of history and our own moment within it. Most things take time—especially good things, like restorations and healing and growth. But we become impatient. We want results now. We lose hope.
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Viktor Frankl and the Search for Meaning 3
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Philosophy
- September 9, 2024
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. —Viktor Frankl Are human beings primarily motivated by sex and power? The first two great psychoanalytic schools, one founded by Sigmund Freud and the other
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15 Books All Men and Boys Should Read 13
- Literature, Featured
- September 3, 2024
Fostering the love of good literature is one of the greatest gifts we can pass on to others and one of the best gifts my parents and uncles gave me. In the modern and digital age of instant gratification where we can easily waste hours scrolling YouTube shorts, TikToks, and reels, the idea of reading
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Literary Theory Was Corrupted, But There Are Signs of Hope 6
- Education, Featured, Literature
- August 19, 2024
I didn’t have a name for it. I just knew I hated it. That’s how I felt when I first began studying literature at a public university and encountered a morass of muddled ideas about literature, language, and truth that all but spoiled the beauty and art of great books, which was what had caused
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C.S. Lewis on the True, the Good, and the Beautiful 2
- Featured, Literature, MomThink
- August 15, 2024
Are truth, goodness, and beauty related? C.S. Lewis and many others of the greatest minds in the Western tradition thought so. For thousands of years, philosophers and theologians have argued that these “three transcendentals” are fundamentally connected. To understand one, you must understand all three. Truth, goodness, and beauty are called the “three transcendentals” because
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The Ancient Solution to Violence: What Girard Discovered About Desire 0
- Literature, Culture, Featured
- August 14, 2024
René Girard was one of the great geniuses of the 1900s. A historian, literary theorist, philosopher, anthropologist, social psychologist, and theologian, Girard wrote almost 30 books and influenced dozens of scholarly disciplines. Yet in a time of rising social discord, Girard’s ideas move beyond the ivory towers of academia and apply directly to the unfolding
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