Technology: What’s Gained and What’s Lost? In an article titled “How You’ll Get Organized,” James Fallows asked five technology experts “to speculate about the…
Discernment Exercise: A Toolkit for Conversations
The School of Life (www.theschooloflife.com), headquartered in London and founded by philosopher and author Alain de Botton, offers in their shop an attractive little…
Vital Questions About Your Life
Discernment / Maturity and Flourishing / Spirituality
In a brief piece posted online on The Huffington Post (03/02/2014), Susie Moore, a life coach in New York City listed “5 Killer Life…
Discernment Exercise: Responding to a Changing World
Hans Rookmaaker, art historian and colleague of Francis Schaeffer published Modern Art and the Death of a Culture in 1970. It was written, in…
Discernment Exercise: Nudity in Art
To the editor: First, I’d like to thank you for devoting so much ink and paper in your last issue to Square Halo Books…
Slipping into politicization
One of the characteristics of 21st century American culture—part of what earlier generations called “the spirit of the age”—is the politicization of life. What…
Faithfulness in a Consumerist Society
As Christians we should be grateful for every aspect of society that allows human beings to flourish. Each is evidence of the common grace…
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism Revisited or Pride Goeth Before a Fall
Twenty-one years ago the Soviet Union collapsed, marking the end of an era. After forty-five years of the Cold War, liberal democracy had emerged…
What to do with liberty?
In his thoughtful and intriguing Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton argues that the libertarian fear of a paternal State can have unfortunate consequences.…
Blasphemy and Free Speech
Editor’s note: The following is adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in…