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The details of the dissolution of the Honors College at Tulsa continue to be quite discouraging.

When the wood deepened, the clean wearing of the earth itself wore away into indistinguishable concord.

In the ultimate form of mimesis, the well-seasoned mower who comes to know every inch of the property he maintains, also comes, in the end, to know the contours and…

Dobson knew his influence was on one side of the political divide and kept his focus and advocacy there. Political loyalties came first.

How we use our free time might be the difference between a professionally successful but ultimately mediocre life and the life of a saint.

Inspired by some recent criminal activity in the Christian rock world, this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’re listening to songs about fame—mostly its negative aspects.

We've made it all the way from the overstepping of Orpheus, the land, and poetry into something our own lives can do (spill over as though water from a fountain--or,…

Charles Eisenstein lays out some initial policy proposals that could help farmers stay solvent while transitioning to more regenerative agricultural practices.

On Politics, Spirituality, Walt Whitman, and the Healing of the United States

The right kind of literature has the power to make the immediate visible to us once again.

Insofar as "The Bee" now occupies something near the center of American Christian discourse, what’s crowded out, I think, is an articulated (not just implied-by-negation) path toward holiness . .…

One of the most curious things about raising two boys seventeen years apart is the divide I feel in their digital generations.

Scott was a scholar of reciprocity, collaboration, and a kind of stubborn agrarianism that is the opposite of romantic and a requisite of real, existing democracy. Let him rest in…

This week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’re listening to songs about restlessness—or, as the scholar Frederick R. Karl calls it, spatiality. I managed to do this whole episode…

Christine Rosen pens a biting response to Katherine Boyle’s rosy picture of techno-families.

A weary, hungry child is walking through the forest, the emerald-green hues of the dense foliage gleaming shyly in the rays of a young summer day. From far above, the…

Encouraged, not only by the burgeoning online-use of Oldenburg’s term "third place," but by a young person’s desire to engage with it, I decided to reach out to Madison.

Building community doesn’t map well into the high value we place on choice at the individual level.

Some good things can only exist at the person-to-person level. To institutionalize them drains them of their moral power.

Rather than focusing on an abundance of produced goods, focus on an abundance of productive land; rather than building an orientation around increasing supply, build an orientation around the collective…

In conjunction with my recent FPR article “Terrestrial Otherness,” this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’ll be listening to music honoring the noble six-legged creatures whose world we…

Piers Gelly describes how students responded when he invited AI into their classroom.

We knew last year’s streak was something special, and now we know it may have been the start of something.

How school uniforms foster a common life in an age of fragmentation.