Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship
Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship By Gabriel Blanchard Bonhoeffer united the courage of a martyr with the profundity of a sage. Just four weeks before the irrevocable collapse …
Great Works & Authors
Gibbon: The First Modern Historian
Gibbon: The First Modern Historian By Matt McKeown Gibbon has left his mark on English-language literature and history. In the United States, we tend to associate 1776 with …
Student Essay: Machiavelli and Jules Verne
Student Essay: Machiavelli and Jules Verne By Suzan Cumings Verne’s novel offers us a character study of a man who pursues the theory of Machiavelli. What qualities define …
Four Marks of a Classic Book
Four Marks of a Classic Book By Gabriel Blanchard What do we mean when we call the great books “great”? The CLT author bank, our version of a …
Tolkien and the Classics
Tolkien and the Classics By Travis Copeland Tolkien’s thoughtful criticism of the Western canon starkly contrasts with the fashionable attacks on it in our own day. In a …
Bunyan: Mapmaker of the Soul
Bunyan: Mapmaker of the Soul By Matt McKeown Bunyan conveys great moral and spiritual insight in a surprisingly accessible novel. The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most …
Averroes: The Commentator
Averroes: “The Commentator” By Gabriel Blanchard Though little studied today, Averroes was one of the chief architects of Medieval thought. For more than seven hundred years, the Iberian …
Wollstonecraft: Rights and Revolution
Wollstonecraft: Rights and Revolution By Matt McKeown Wollstonecraft represented the first glimmer of female equality before the law. From humble beginnings in the late Georgian era of England, …
Student Essay: Humility in “Pride and Prejudice”
Student Essay: Humility in Pride and Prejudice By Ana Schau The moral development of the principal characters is not only the theme of Pride and Prejudice, but the …
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Darwin: The Father of Modern Biology
Darwin: The Father of Modern Biology By Gabriel Blanchard Charles Darwin permanently altered the basic assumptions of modern science. Born in 1809, Charles Darwin seemed set up for …
