Joshua Pauling

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Joshua Pauling teaches high school history and studied at Messiah College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Winthrop University. He has written for Areo Magazine, Forma Journal, Front Porch Republic, Mere Orthodoxy, Modern Reformation, Public Discourse, Quillette Magazine, and Salvo Magazine. He is head elder at All Saints Lutheran Church (LCMS). Josh also makes custom furniture and restores vintage woodworking machinery. He and his wife Kristi have two children who are being classically homeschooled.

Recent Essays

The Stump

Jacques Barzun’s 1937 Critique of Race-Thinking

Joshua Pauling - November 18, 2020

On the heels of a consequential election, and the accompanying commentary demonstrating the continued pervasiveness of race-thinking, Barzun’s message of honoring each human individual’s value while recognizing our shared common humanity is a timely and timeless message.

The Nightstand

Cultivating the Skills that Freedom Requires in Matthew Crawford’s Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

Joshua Pauling - October 7, 2020

Human driving requires unending mutual predictions and constant accommodations for each other. It is in such experiences that we end up with something meaningful for life in the physical world and life in community.

The Feed Store

The Allure of Old Tools and Vintage Machinery: Memory, Meaning, and Making

Joshua Pauling - July 17, 2020

Building or re-building things taps into deep and elemental desires embedded in the human experience that in some shadowed sense mimic the Creator.

The Stump

Teddy Roosevelt’s Prophetic Speech: The Perpetual Relevance of “The Man in the Arena”

Joshua Pauling - June 11, 2020

Roosevelt delivered an oration he entitled “Citizenship in a Republic,” but which the world would soon come to call “The Man in the Arena.” Every fresh reading of the speech brings something new into bold relief.

The Stump

Coming Home, COVID-19 Style: A Moment to Reconsider the Natural Family

Joshua Pauling - April 29, 2020

The lengthy drift from family to individual as the primary social unit carries an alluring promise of autonomy and individualism which sounds so good, so freeing, but it comes up lacking in times of crisis.

The Stump

The Super Bowl Spectacle Sends Mixed Messages about Women

Joshua Pauling - February 5, 2020

What was on display in the halftime show was not a celebration of sexuality or empowerment for women. It was an elevation of instinct.

The Blackboard

Recapturing the Real: Physicality, Imitation, and Tradition in a Digital World

Joshua Pauling - January 6, 2020

Our educational approach should include the validation of physicality, the imitation of the master, and the celebration of tradition.