I’m delighted—and daunted!—for this chance at engaging the rich discussions of this forum. Nothing I say in this short space…
Proximate enigmas
Aristotle
Our front yard Madonnas
But the images that really kept returning to me were the statues of the Holy Family on people’s front yards.…
The perspective of the common
In liberal theory, essence is privileged over existence, reason over will, and endless discussion over decision. In political theology, things…
Truth in conflict
My previous post argued that anyone who wishes both to think well and to feel well about the world should…
Obama’s living virtues
Obama's list of virtues comes in pairs, and the pairings are mutually illuminating. I will, though, examine them not in…
“Out of many, one”
That devotion to the theme "E Pluribus Unum," "out of many, one," is among the things that are old in…