Introduction Christian classical education challenges the modern view of the self, yet its use of the Western tradition aims to cultivate a mature and flourishing human being. It seeks to understand God’s world and align human nature with the structure of reality. In contrast, modern education treats students as material to be shaped according to … More Classical Education
Anna Karenina is the greatest novel. In it, the reader will find illustrated the two great questions of existence: what is man like? and what is man for? The first question is mapped out in the lives of a complex cast of characters, most notably in the two protagonists, Anna and Levin, who begin, like … More Anna Karenina: a Review
Humble people are happy people. The world offers her goodness to everyone, but does so on her own terms. It cannot be demanded, grasped at, captured, or enticipated. Pride thinks it is owned this goodness, and when the hardness of the world is instead recieved, it is seen as an insult to its dignity. Humility … More Pride and Happiness
Meaningful leisure is the antidote to both the modern world’s laziness as well as its bustle, but more than that, leisure leads to the highest human calling, contemplation. “Leisure is,” according to the German philosopher Josef Pieper, “the contemplative reception of reality through our highest activities.” In other words doing activities that allow the mind … More Leisure and the Highest Good
Christians sometimes fall prey to wrongly seeing everything in two categories: the good and the evil. If we think something is a good (mistakenly or not) we tend to think that, in all circumstances, we should have it, and then any claim to moderation is a limitation on the good itself. Conversely, if we deem … More The Good and the Lesser Good
Reflective Wanderer 