Love and Obey: For There’s No Other Way
Our culture is consumed with romantic love. Admittedly, sexual gratification is often confused for love. Even so, pop songs are filled with promises of eternal happiness in the arms of another, romantic comedies remain a perennial favorite for moviegoers on dates, and the Valentine’s Day industry is as strong as ever even amid massive inflation and economic turmoil. However, such understandings of love are extremely shallow. Love is...
Citizenship in Christian Perspective
What is the proper relationship between the Christian and the state? Thinkers have not provided a shortage of answers to that question throughout the church’s history. Christians have (and do in different parts of the world) existed as outlaw sects uneasy with the state, as members of the official religion of the state, and everything in between. At this present moment of increasing partisan polarization within the socio-cultural...
Mother Culture: A Reading Life after Kids
At this point in my life, I spend around two hours every day getting my children to sleep for bedtimes and naps. Yes, perhaps there is a quicker way to do it, but for good or ill I have chosen my path. I will refrain from calculating the amount of time I spend preparing meals, cleaning up meals, or completing laundry and the like, lest I grow resentful and let that lie creep in that my time is my own to do with what I please. I will...
Recommended Books (Winter 2023)
Arctic storms, shortened daylight hours, and rainy/snowy weather forces us indoors during the cold winter months. Even as we appreciate and enjoy the austerity of this time of year, it also encourages us to look forward to spring and resurrection. So, as we fill the longer nights with family activities and time indoors, we have great opportunities to reach for new books. Below, you will find reading suggestions from our group that...
Pursuing Graduate School in the United Kingdom
Since 2017 I have been engaged in postgraduate studies through British universities. I have found that postgraduate degrees in the United Kingdom are much different from those offered in the United States. From the application process to the so-called “program” of study, the two systems differ significantly. In my experience it was very helpful to receive advice about these differences from students who had experience on both sides of...
From the Cold War of Winter to the Genuine Hope of Christmas
In this short post, I offer some reflections for Christmas. The HSF will take a break next week and begin posting again on January 9, 2023. Aslan In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the Narnians live in a world where it is always winter but never Christmas. Although it is bleak, they hold out hope for the fulfillment of the Golden Age Prophecy: Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his...
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