Guest Contributor’s posts concerning timely worldview issues and events.
Image generated by Gemini. Just outside my office window, the tulip poplar has shed most of its blooms, and the first green buds mark the tree’s next transition in springtime. It is glorious to behold. Up to this point, I have drawn from the work of Praxis Circle...
“Almost everything around us was invented since the patent and copyright laws [were enacted]. Practically all American wealth is built on an invention or discovery. It might be a discovery of a new way of doing things, a new way of analyzing things, or of organizing...
For over a decade, I have asked my children for only one Christmas gift: to read aloud a poem at our Christmas Eve dinner. As small children cheerfully, as middle schoolers begrudgingly, as older teenagers dutifully, they have each recited their assigned poem every...
By all rights, Christianity shouldn't have succeeded. It began as a tiny sect in a backwater province of the Roman Empire. It demanded costly sacrifices from followers: strict sexual ethics, rejection of civic festivals, and refusal to worship the emperor. The threat...
Last month, I wrote about natural beauty and how we can perceive and understand it. In writing, I’ve discovered that beauty is both judged and felt—a combination of reason, emotion, and faith. In life, I’ve found that when I experience beauty, it possesses a quiet,...
In my last post on beauty, I looked at two questions: Why would the artist make art? And why should the artist make art? I concluded any artist must create; to do so is not a choice, but an irrepressible pursuit of goodness. To make art, in whatever form, is to follow...
Recently, we shared a word from Praxis Circle Contributor R. R. “Rusty” Reno, editor of First Things, on the definition of postliberalism, a movement increasingly picking up steam. Loosely defined, postliberalism is a response to "later-stage" Western liberalism’s...
A New(ish) Word: Postliberalism America is known as the "land of the free, the home of the brave.” Sad to say, however, that some are seeing our society today emphasizing mainly the “free” part—especially this time of year—to the exclusion of bravery. In...
In our newest interview, Dr. Stephen Meyer, a former...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=a6i9VPrj170 I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. . . . the Lord is your shade at your right hand; . . . The Lord watches over...
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