What Plato Can Teach Us About Public Opinion and Politics
Plato’s The Republic continues to be read, taught, and studied many centuries beyond its writing. It endures because of the way it raises fundamental questions about politics. Many Christians have been exposed to The Republic through C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. When Lewis writes that the head rules the body through the chest, he…
How A Gap Year Experience Positions a Student to Flourish in College
Each August around 20 million people head off to their college experience. In an odd paradox college is both more accessible and more risky than it has ever been. From the founding days of our country until the end of World War II the college experience was mostly reserved for the very wealthy. The post…
Leaving a Legacy of Gratitude
Every Thanksgiving I’m reminded of a passage of Scripture that’s likely familiar to you, although you might not associate it with Thanksgiving. It’s not from Paul’s epistles, loaded with verses like “Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father…