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Michael Heinlein’s new biography captures the character of the remarkable churchman, Cardinal Francis George, with exceptional insight and skill.
Dante did the unthinkable: He translated a mystic pilgrimage to the stars (a perfect subject for Latin) into the language of the flesh and body and mud and blood.
Be silent. Hush. Take up the sound of ooze
like oil from olives that the presses bruise.
Or be the sound of fresh baked loaves, the sound
of seeds beneath the stony, sun-packed ground.
Classical education is on the rise! Mark Bauerlein and Jason Baxter discuss:
When Christendom splintered and was nearly overrun by the Moors, few would have predicted the spiritual Renaissance soon to be advanced by humanistic Jesuits and others, or the extraordinary mission to the New World, or the abundance of saints.
Understanding the theological, moral, and epistemological gulf that often exists between first- and second-generation Muslim immigrants is key to understanding the nuanced positions within the American Muslim community.
Francis George was a good and faithful servant. And Michael Heinlein has written a biography worthy of his life.
Dante is constantly code-switching from a classical in-the-head way of speaking to one that is more in-the-blood and in-the-nerves.
For many Muslims today Islam is less a religion with truth claims about the nature of God and mankind’s relationship to him than an aggrieved identity group among other identity groups.
Mark and Robert Jackson discuss the growth of classical education, and some opportunities for teachers administrators to develop their schools.
Tate‘s alleged conversion to Islam was a pathetic attempt to borrow credibility from a worldview that he hopes will help him cosplay as an ancient warlord rather than a promiscuous p**n peddler.
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The Ozarks ain’t Scotland, and there’s no Macduff waiting in the wings. Turns out you can keep wading through that river of blood all the way to the other side, and it just doesn’t matter if the damned spot can’t be scrubbed off.
In our postmodern culture, our gaze has turned completely inward. We now see blasphemy as a crime against our new god: the self.