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At This Still Point of the Turning World
The winter poplars stand” Strange masts with spars Under cold stars. I shall wait a myriad sail of leaves In spring rains and winds. I shall bend in starboards...
Angelism and the Provincial Self
(Editors’ Note: This essay is adapted from a convocation address presented at Hillsdale College last October.) I begin with a statement you will agree is true, after which you’re...
Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal
In Washington, where he was to give the eighteenth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 3, 1989, Walker Percy also gave an interview to Scott Walter for Crisis....
Intense Transforming Care: On the Way Back
Slowly: out of that sleep that numbs the knife edge, I come home to a various world, to faces and voices, To a blur of angels at this keep,...
The Inescapability of Metaphysics
The purpose of the study of philosophy is not to learn what others have thought, but to learn how the truth of things stands. —St. Thomas Aquinas We as...
