During each vacation for the past couple of years, I have made a habit of reading Josef Pieper’s Leisure the Basis of Culture. He writes, “not to give advice and draw up a line of action” but to “make men think.”
I recently listened to a lecture on the virtue of making lists. There is neurotic list-making as a form of control, but there can also be virtue in our list-making as an expression of attention and even love. For the past 5-6 years, I have made a habit of writing down what I have read...
I want to begin with a confession. I did not grow up with a Classical Education. I did not have house groups, identifying me with Augustine, Carey, Edwards, or Tolkien. I had mascots, which meant I was a Roadrunner, a Rattler, and a Bruin. Nor did I grow up with an emphasis upon virtues. These...
I recently picked up a book I have read before but is worth reading again and again. Owen should be read slowly, thoughtfully, and repeatedly for there is so much good fruit to glean from his writings.