Freedom Among Themselves
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
E.D. Kain had a fine quote from Wendell Berry that provides a good definition of community to start any discussion of place and limits:
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Contraception and Signs of Contradiction: Part I
Contraception as Apparent Moral Good. Most persons who use contraception conceive of it as a moral good. They see an unruly, pullulating nature directed...
The GOP in Limbo: How Low Can You Go?
Newt Gingrich is a master of righteous indignation although he’s far better at being indignant than being righteous. What's going on with conservative Christians?
My Teacher, My Friend
Alexandria, VA Some, perhaps many readers here will know that I learned much of what I know of political philosophy - and, much of...
Simplicity “Bleg”
I'd like to call upon the collective wisdom of the Front Porch Republic, to help me with a new class I'll be teaching in...
Stephen Hawking Proves the Existence of God
Obfuscating language and philosophical ignorance do not prevent Hawking from suggesting that modern physics confirms Christian cosmology. Nature really does conform to uncreated law.
Wendell Berry and the Great Economy
Economics has become a totalizing system claiming the power to explain all things. It is as much a religious system—by another name—as is Berry's Great Economy.
Science, Self-Deification, and Gnosticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark”
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" provides a springboard for reflecting on the problems of scientism, especially the temptation to self-deification and, what Eric Voegelin terms, modern Gnosticism.