Essay Archives

Mar 5, 2012 Essay

Moving Beyond the Physical to a Richer Definition of Health

The definition of health is rooted in what it means to be human.

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

Michael Polanyi: Unknown and Untapped

His legacy holds hope for returning the Western tradition to wonder, to adventure, to anticipation.

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

Erasmus is an Eel: Renaissance Humanist Hero

His passion and networking skills could make him the patron saint of the twenty-first century.

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

Footprints in the Snow

“Men and women resist believing that they follow beaten paths. But they really become insufferably proud when they look around and think they leave no tracks.”

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

Skepticism and Witching Worries: Twin Legacies of the Fifteenth Century

Millennia of tension in Christian materiality can be instructive as we move past modernist narratives of science at war with religion.

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

The Liberty She Won for Others

Hannah More used her pen to effect great reform.

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

The Art of Passing on Wonts

The true measure of our legacy is the depth of our gratitude, not the shimmer of our moral and technical excellence.

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

Switchfoot and St. Augustine

“There’s got to be something more than what I’m living for.”

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

Jonathan Edwards and Life’s Adverbial Questions

God himself is the “what.” Edwards spent his life studying the “where,” “when,” “why,” and “how.”

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

Marilynne Robinson and Hymns to the Miracle of Existence

Her fiction occupies an odd space, resuscitating the nerve-endings of our souls.

Essay

Moving Beyond the Physical to a Richer Definition of Health

Michael Polanyi: Unknown and Untapped

Erasmus is an Eel: Renaissance Humanist Hero

Footprints in the Snow

Skepticism and Witching Worries: Twin Legacies of the Fifteenth Century

The Liberty She Won for Others

The Art of Passing on Wonts

Switchfoot and St. Augustine

Jonathan Edwards and Life’s Adverbial Questions

Marilynne Robinson and Hymns to the Miracle of Existence

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