"One True God has been the most revolutionary and consequential idea ever to have confronted the human mind." American Agonistes: America's 250th and the Restoration of a Nation in Conflict with...
To start with Praxis Circle Contributor Os Guinness, one of America's biggest fans and the inspiration for the founding of Praxis Circle, concerning the Creator God Narrative (CGN) versus the Man...
In his fascinating book Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, Sebastian Smee describes how the brutality of the Franco-Prussian War and the ensuing civil war in Paris led to the art form beloved by so many people around the world. The painters of...
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...
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...
"There is a world where still." The Christmas Plains by Jody Bottum (page 92). The phrase "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" comes from an editorial published in The Sun, a New York City...
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...
"A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of the laws of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent." An Enquiry Concerning...
Two questions from my teaching days are: Why would the artist make art? and why should the artist make art? I used these two questions and a challenging poem, “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to introduce a unit on poetry. More on all that later in this post....
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