How Do You Get a Civic Education?
How Do You Get a Civic Education? By Emily Andrews As CLT celebrates the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, we are taking time to reflect on the kind […]
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Civics
Where Does Civic Education Fit Into the Liberal Arts?
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, the time is ripe for reflection about what it means to be a citizen of this great nation. Although it is true that a republic grants its people profound freedom of choice, it is equally true that it lays a significant weight of responsibility on the shoulders of its citizens.
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Texts in Context: The Apostolic Poverty Movement
One of the most potent forces throughout medieval society was the apostolic poverty movement, heretical and orthodox by turns; but what was it?
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Rhetorica: Of the Same Clay
What is essential to argument is not that both sides prove everything they say, but only that they begin from premises both parties accept.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Enter the Sea Lion
Free debate is a good thing, but it is hard to encourage after an experience with a “sea lion”; this damages the communication skills of everyone involved.
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Rumors of Wars
Rumors of WarsA Brief Discussion ofJust War Theory By Gabriel Blanchard Few topics are as theoretically involved, or as grimly practical, as the ethical philosophy of violence. Unrest
On Piety—Part III
From the history of piety, we now turn to its present and future; and, indeed, the question of whether it has one.
On Piety—Part II
From its antique beginnings in Greco-Roman society, piety took a new and radically different shape in the Middle Ages.
Sojourner Truth: An Author Profile
The tall, lean shape of Sojourner Truth strode tirelessly across the North, carrying the law and the gospel of freedom in its mouth.
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On Piety—Part I
Classical piety needs to be recovered by Christians, and by all people who seek to lead lives of true, enduring, and robust virtue.