How do you see music in conversation or in relationship with the liberal arts? Is music part of the liberal arts? I would say a very emphatic yes, because it’s one of the original seven. So if we’ve got the trivium and the quadrivium, the trivium are all of the arts of the word—grammar, logic and rhetoric—and they’re geared towards knowledge of the self, and … Continue reading An Interview with Dr. Daniel Kuehler
By Frederick Woodward Heroism, by nature, tends toward a tragic dichotomy. All throughout human memory, the pattern has remained relatively fixed. A man attains popular immortality, or else he is forgotten a few generations after he dies. The two conditions are not mutually exclusive — one can precede, or follow the other. Popularized, forgotten, redeemed again — these words sum up the cycle of virtually … Continue reading Forgotten Heroes: The Polish Catholic Men that Shaped the American Revolution
By Aryn Joy Tomasetti They call me Henry, it’s been two years, and I’m still ten. Kids don’t think about time the way adults do. We don’t count it quickly and we’re not visited by the ghosts from our childhood. We are the ghosts from our childhood; we just haven’t made it to the future yet. All the same, I thought I knew what Dad … Continue reading Out of Play
By Andrew Winter The cold had by now numbed and confused my mind, and I could not deny it. I tried to think only of the food for my love. I had it, packages and packages of it, pound upon pound, piled on the sled. In the near-pitch darkness I was now almost a quarter of the way across the great Blackwisp Lake, eight inches … Continue reading Silence of Water
By Samuel Hilgeman On the Road to Emmaus, two men walk with God: “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself… And their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him” (Luke 24). Reason without worship leads to death. In the modern western world, the great skeptics of the human tradition seek to build … Continue reading Man as Homo-Adorans
By Theodore Hoelker Recently, I took an adventure to Meijer with a few friends. We got there just 10 minutes before closing, with barely enough time for me to buy the cookies I had come for. While we all sat in the car and enjoyed them, I happened to see People magazine in the seat next to me. Intrigued, as I do not often read … Continue reading A Defense of Fashion
By Isaiah Sasser Weathers followed the faint trail through the undergrowth. A broad bear print impressed softly upon the loam caught his eye; a left paw, pointing north. Four claw marks scored the earth. The claw second from the left was missing. Weathers nodded to himself. His breath quickened and his pace increased. The lever-action rifle strapped around his shoulder jostled with the forceful, deliberate … Continue reading The Crows Will Pick Clean Our Bones
Dr. Charles N. Steele Eighty years ago this past August the Japanese Empire was finally defeated. It took over four and a half years of bloody fighting and the ferocious bombing of Japanese cities with incendiaries and atomic bombs to beat them into surrender. It is a great thing that the Japanese Empire was crushed. It was a remarkably brutal regime and it had the … Continue reading The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Dark, Terrible, Wonderful, Righteous Things
By Jacob Schulz Enshrined within the American system of politics is the foundational principle, boldly proclaimed by the Declaration of Independence, that governments “deriv[e] their just powers from the consent of the governed.” That phrase, however, demands more than a single once-and-for-all expression of consent at the formation of the body politic and government. It also encompasses the right of the people to continually exercise … Continue reading Consent is More Than Voting
What are your thoughts on Jesus as a “Healer”? I guess it’s been on my mind, this facet of the Christian faith, this facet of a fundamental part of Jesus’s identity that the Gospels lay out. I’ve been trying to tell people about miracles more, and the truth is that I have a friend who was crippled, and I’ve seen her run. I saw before … Continue reading Jesus as Healer: An Interview with Dr. Kelly Franklin
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