The struggle for who controls the educational worldview of the next generation is at the heart of the culture war in every generation. For example, in the early twentieth century, Adolf Hitler notably focused on the education of the German youth in his attempt to create the Aryan man who would populate and propagate his […]
Life & Culture
The Art of Stretching: What Do You Have in Your Hands Right Now?
The American Dream carves out a very narrow path to well-being. It sets expectations and shapes behaviors in ways that convince people to chase after things they might not need or want, while overlooking the costs of this pursuit.
Clues That We’ve Been Schooled
For more than a century now, Americans have been unwittingly shaped by the American public education system. But wait, you might be saying! We’re a homeschooling family. Our children have never been in a public school. How is it possible we have been shaped by a system in which we have never participated? That’s a […]
The Price of Leisure
In Zena Hitz’s essay, “What is Time For?,” she makes the case that leisure requires something of us. In a Substack post last year, where I reflected on Josef Pieper’s Only the Lover Sings, I treated the idea of leisure and the important role it plays in our lives—it is that for which we do […]
The American Dream: A Commonplace Idea
The American dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of merely material plenty, though that has doubtless counted heavily. It has been much more than that. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as […]
G. K. Chesterton on Artificial Intelligence
G. K. Chesterton, a prominent figure in Christian humanism and a profound thinker of the early 20th century, was known for his insightful observations on various aspects of human existence. While Chesterton did not directly comment on artificial intelligence, his philosophical and theological perspectives offer valuable insights into what he might say about AI if […]
Is Bitcoin Evil?
Bitcoin will ultimately fail for the same reason our paper money is currently failing. Both are a pseudo-currency and neither are founded on work—which is what made the gold standard a viable economic foundation. The US dollar is little more than free-floating, fiat money with a strong proclivity toward inflation. It’s been in that condition […]
Happy New Year 2024
The New Year excites the emotions of most people, but for different and various reasons. For many, it’s the excitement of the New Year’s party. One poll conducted back in 2019, surveying more than 2000 participants, concluded average working Americans between ages 23-38 were willing to spend more than $220 for an evening of partying […]
Words Make Us What We Are in the World
Ultimately through our own use of words, we come to be what we are in the world, for good or bad… Through the concert of heart and mind tuned by true words, we may move beyond our individual, separate aspirations and become aware that we hold humanity in common; so then we have a common—that […]
Another Primer on Christian Humanism
One of the failures of thought among some of the modern Reformed is the tendency of that some to absolutize the biblical vision for God’s glory. That is, this school of thought asserts the drama of world redemption was played out for God’s glory alone. Understood rightly, this is absolutely true. However, the redemption of […]