I just began reading through an anthology of Stanley Hauerwas’ works, The Hauerwas Reader. I am still very early into the readings, still going through his project & methodology, but came across this great contrast of thought: The Lutheran theologian Gilbert Meilaender is much closer to the truth when he suggests that two of the most basic [...]

So in a recent post I talked about how the central that freedom has in the work of Dostoevsky. Why he sees it as being so important is that through our freedom we have to opportunity & possibility of fulfilling what it means to be human, what could be understood as the divination of man [...]

“Son tell me about your day,” inquiringly the father asked. “Well, it was grand,” the son stated plainly in reply. “I got to play the part of a plumber, climbing under the house and work in dirty septic water.” “Son, what else would you have been doing today? Have you had to work on plumbing [...]