Philosophy

Are We Dressing to the Lowest Common Denominator?36
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized
- October 8, 2025
A while back, a married couple asked for the time of the morning service at my church, promising to show up the following Sunday. They did, and enjoyed the service, but an observation by the wife surprised me. “Everyone’s dressed up,” was the essence of her comment. Even the ladies, she noticed, were wearing skirts
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Be Truthful to Yourself, Not True 27
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 29, 2025
“Be true to yourself” is one of the primary slogans of our culture. This same culture insists that if a man feels like a woman, he is one, and if a woman loves a woman, that’s all well and good, and if someone wants to murder their unborn child, so be it. In each case,
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The Choice Before Us – Chaos or Christianity 29
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 25, 2025
In the weeks since Charlie Kirk’s death, many have been appalled at the treatment his life received at the hands of public figures and private individuals – many of whom are the teachers, doctors, and other average people who populate our lives. How can such people, we wonder, treat an apparently innocent man in such
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The Mighty Power of Human Resilience 42
- Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 18, 2025
A year ago, had you stood in front of Mountain Inn and Suites on the outskirts of Erwin, Tenn., to your left you would have seen four or five small businesses and some storage units, flanked by a Baptist church. To your right would be a Mexican restaurant, Panchos & Amigos, joined to a convenience
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Balancing Truth in the Digital Age 27
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 5, 2025
Most of us are aware of how dangerous misinformation can be, whether it comes from “official” mainstream media sources or from the distant hinterlands of the internet blogosphere. Neither mainstream media nor alternative media, neither the left nor right, has a monopoly on truth, and oftentimes getting the real facts requires a careful process of
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Why Friendship Is Essential to Cultural Renewal 30
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 20, 2025
Suppose you want to change the world for the better. Where to begin? One place is friendship. We are, as Aristotle teaches, social animals, designed to live in community, to build societies where each plays a role as part of a whole, and to find meaning through relationships. Aristotle suggests in the “Nicomachean Ethics” that eudaimonia
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