Seen through his most redemptive lens, Bjartur stands as a cautionary tale for those who would pursue independence as an end in itself.
In his brief and not altogether satisfying rejoinder to the question, “why write?” Berry says, “To serve that triumph I have done all the rest,” and he ends the poem there. “That triump...
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/05/working-for-the-life-beyond-words/
“Our Draymond Green Problem.” Elizabeth Stice draws on Draymond Green and Hannah Arendt to consider what responsibilities we might have for our allies: “What we need then is not exactly les...
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/05/reading-chatbots-and-home/
Our mothers and our children will always be part of our lives, in life and death. Surprisingly, grief does not dominate our existence, it informs it.
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/05/the-hidden-sorrow-of-mothers-day/
In our daily lives, we need activities that aren’t driven by our left hemispheres. We need leisure (as understood by Josef Pieper). We need to waste time. We need to do nothing . . . a thing th...
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/05/on-the-need-to-reactivate-our-right-hemispheres/
Let’s point to the wiser and the well off and ask people if they want what those people have–often they do. Many times, those people have a love for the liberal arts.
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/05/the-liberal-arts-take-it-or-leave-it/
Arched doorways, private courtyards, personal craftsmanship, a sense of place, and almost everything else we love about buildings has been taken away by the modernist ethos intent on depriving th...
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/05/modern-architecture-designed-to-demoralize/
Longtime ghostwriter Nancy French tells her own tale in Ghosted: An American Life. French was raised in rural Tennessee and would later provide the words behind famous talking heads but found ...
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/05/ghost-stories-with-nancy-french/
Reading for the shape of a life can be medicinal, especially when we allow that life to diagnose and heal ourselves. And maybe then that understanding can encourage doctors of all kinds–but esp...
“Is Ethical Shopping Only for Hipsters?” Kate Lucky wrestles with ethical shopping, effective charity, and the upside down extravagance of the Kingdom of God: “We anticipate an abundant new...
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/05/hipsters-cellphones-and-mondragon/