Legal Ontology: Does “The Law” Exist?
Greetings to those of you in Seattle, who now know the answer to the age-old question: “Where would we be without law?” Answer: “Seattle.” The title of…
Beauty and the Imagination
Why is a sentence from C.S. Lewis delightful while an equally true statement by another, ordinary writer, is not? “I believe in Christianity as I believe the…
The Symphony of Beauty and Love in the Garden
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” – Aldo…
On the Meaning of “Be Yourself”
“Stay true. Be you.” “Stay true to yourself.” “Be who you are.” “Just be yourself.” “You do you.” These slogans are part of the fundamental fabric of…
Why We Still Need Plato
Along with a growing number of my fellow evangelicals, I have learned to qualify the Reformation cry of sola scriptura by asserting the foundational authority of the…
The Mystery of the High Sales of C.S. Lewis
Why is C.S. Lewis loved so hard by so many people? He was a man of wide reading (very wide reading), but as a scholar he was…