“The house of the Virgin, like her Son, was destined to become a second gate of God. An ark hath appeared holier than that of old, not containing the tables written by God’s hand but having received within it God…
One of the things I enjoy about a diachronic reading of history, that is, history as it changes through time, is how saints of one era react to the saints of another. Human sanctity is a masterwork of divine grace…
Recently I was spending some free time in creative research, and I came upon the 1918 Cambridge Edition of the Greek Anthology, translated by the once-famous W.R. Paton, whose Hellenophilia extended even beyond scholarly interest in his marriage to Irene…
Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere is the season for which I live. More so than the warmth, I love the light. Even more than that, I love that the light gives us a certain length of day, and time…
Saint Benedict of Nursia’s Feast falls on July 11, this year on a Thursday. It’s a shame that so many feasts of the Church get overlooked nowadays, simply because most people have such a poor understanding of the Church’s calendar.…
Human nature is full of vulnerabilities. One of the worst is the ease with which we can be deceived. This has been one of the most critical questions of philosophy since its inception: how can we be sure of anything…
One of the characteristics of a functioning civilization is a sensible legal system. A sensible legal system is that which metes out justice equitably, without partiality. The manifest and hidden costs to a society where a society lacks the ‘Rule…
When asking philosphers of history “What is Modernity?”, probably one of the few agreed-upon answers is that modernity seeks above all to conquer and dominate nature, to bend it to human will. This tendency can even be seen before the…
To begin, I would like to thank readership for their engagement with the last essay. I very rarely launch into topics surrounding politics. I attribute this, quite frankly, to extensive behavioral conditioning, but also my theological convictions. For the sake…
Although the claim may be somewhat exaggerated, it is clear that the phenomenon known of globalization has been under strain in recent years. With the exception of major crises like the World Wars and the Great Depression, for the most…