The West
A Tribute to Ideas that Make Us
The Essenes: A Community Greater than the Sum of its Parts
Most of what we know about the Essenes comes from the literature found at Qumran, known popularly as The Dead Sea Scrolls, and from the writings of the Jewish historian, Josephus, a Roman historian, Philo, and a few other Roman and Greek writers. The Essenes,...
The Minority on the Mayflower
Century Watch: This Year in History 1620: THE MINORITY ON THE MAYFLOWER A small group of dissenters from the Church of England, known as the Separatists, embarked on two ships, the Mayflower and Speedwell, bound for the New World. The Speedwell sprang a leak,...
Fighting the Naked Emperor: A Review of Live Not By Lies
Totalitarianism at Our Doorstep By TY FISCHER and JOE GERBER We inhabit a world of lies. They are lies that command high places, and which Christians pay a severe price for transgressing. The most timely of fairy tales for our day is Hans Christian Andersen’s “The...
Research Shows Benefits of a Classical Christian Education
Cranach: The Blog of Veith By GENE VEITH Cranach: The Blog of Veith discusses the ACCS Good Soil Report. "What struck me most, though, is the data for 'outlook on life'; that is, for their general happiness and mental health. The classically educated adults scored...
Scientism, the coronavirus, and the death of the humanities
Who would have predicted that the rise of Darwinian science would cause the death of of the humanities and humanism? This is what Eric Adler says in the article below. The humanism he is talking about is the humanism that teaches respect for one's fellowman, by...
Can We Talk About What Happened In D.C. The Other Day?
Jan 8, 2021 This article first appeared on Joshua Gibbs’ “The Cedar Room” blog on the CiRCE Institute’s website. See the original article here. For more articles like this one, visit: www.CirceInstitute.com STUDENT: Can we talk about what happened in the capital...
Freedom to Worship and Free Speech for UK and US Churches
Along with recent news, here are some updates on challenges Christian communities are facing both at home and abroad. Christians in the UK and US are facing similar obstacles as they seek to serve the communities they are in. Please keep them in your prayers. In the...
Great Ideas
Revisit Summer 2019 -- 8 Ideas You Can't Live Without. Want to dig deeper or find a new perspective? Need a discussion starter for a Bible study, discussion group, or class? Community Group Kit See the Articles View the PDF Are you with a school? Order copies for...
A Little Cultural Snobbery, Please: How other cultures help us recover our own
By David Goodwin “Well, … I don’t know. That, you’d have to convince me of.” This wry and skeptical reaction from a teen working on her senior thesis said volumes. What statement of mine could have elicited such a challenge? “There are better cultures and worse...
In Defense of the West
By KATHARINE SAVAGE Where I live, mention the Great Books or the Western tradition, and you are likely given a polite sneer, at best. At worst, you’ll hear the all too familiar string of adjectives: “racist,” “post-colonial,” “bigoted.” And this is a real conundrum...
Powerful and Dangerous: Men Are Not Angels
Men are not Angels Thomas Hobbes, describing a condition without government called the “state of nature,” said that the life of man without authority is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Human beings are naturally ambitious, greedy, interested in their own...
Kings Who are Subjects and Subjects Who are Kings
In the year 410 AD, a new “order” for governing nations emerged, not from a king, but from a theologian. His idea remained with us into the twentieth century. Its slow loss threatens our freedom in the twenty-first. The sacking of Rome by Aleric the Visigoth inspired...
