What if the best thing we can do is just show up?
Interview with Robert Jensen: It’s Debatable
In his new book, It’s Debatable, Robert Jensen gives us tools to keep talking to each other–not past each other.
Shirley Mullen and the courageous middle: online Trinity Forum conversation next week
Next Friday (July 26), Shirley Mullen will participate in an online conversation with Trinity Forum on her new book.
Work in progress: Current’s 100 books of the 21st century (so far)
Current’s list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century is in progress!
On classifying books
With books, as with other good things in life, sometimes you are just in the mood for something different.
Blessing of Unicorns: Scofield Reference Bible, education, tech Sabbaths, George MacDonald, and more!
The Unicorns of this week have landed!
SUMMERING: Like It’s 1989
Nostalgia’s inevitable allure, even amid crumbling worlds
Blessing of Unicorns: Family-friendly city, WWII and Ukraine, Bonhoeffer, summer reading, and more!
Building a family-friendly city, how to foster free-range kids, building a culture of life, WWII and Ukraine, Bonhoeffer, summer beach reads, education isn’t about you, 55 years of Faith and Learning seminar at Wheaton, and the fortieth anniversary of the death of Foucault!
Sign of a divided country: Israel’s military to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox
Israeli military is about to begin drafting the ultra-Orthodox. This is a really bad idea–and a sign of cultural division.
Compassionate college closures: an exhortation
Is it possible to navigate college closings ethically and compassionately?
Ethics and Public Policy Center’s encouraging report on two years after Dobbs (and some discouraging thoughts too)
Patrick Brown’s report on states and family-friendly policies two years after Dobbs is a must-read.
Blessing of Unicorns: Fairy tales, books, exvangelicals, summer, and Roman warfare
Blessing of Unicorns: Featuring fairy tales with the gory bits left in, books, exvangelicals, summer, and Roman battle scenes in movies.
Interview: Joshua Kinlaw on the classics and classical education
Classical Education’s best motto: “Let the kids read!”
The quiet death of an academic Classics journal
What does the death of Ramus mean for publishing in the humanities?
Blessing of Unicorns: A Tudor Castle, reading Ukrainian and Classical literature, the intact mind, and Mary Cassatt at work
This week’s unicorns: A Tudor Castle lost and found, reading Ukrainian and Classical literature, deep reading, the intact mind, and Mary Cassatt at work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Blessing of Unicorns: Summer Dreaming
What do unicorns do in the summer?
WSJ on the global fertility crash (and Martha Nussbaum’s approval)
Resolving the global fertility crash will only happen with a culture change.
Jake Meador on “The PCA We Could Have”
Mere Orthodoxy’s Jake Meador reflects on the PCA, divisions, and THAT panel.
Jake Wallis Simons for The Telegraph: “The case against Israel has just collapsed”
Hamas has been the source of estimates of casualties in Gaza in the war so far. They lied.
One great Unicorn for your weekend: Daniel Nayeri’s commencement speech for Wheaton!
Daniel Nayeri’s commencement speech for Wheaton’s graduation this spring is magnificent.