wisdom

  • St. Thomas Aquinas

    Today the Catholic Church celebrates St. Thomas Aquinas, a 13th century Domincan priest and maybe the smartest Christian ever. His work brought together Christian theology and classical Greek philosophy in ways that show that faith and reason are not oppositional. In fact, for Aquinas the two perfect each other.  Three quick things about Aquinas worth

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  • Best I Can Offer

    In the wake of Hurricane Helene’s devastation, not only of my home state of Florida, but a lot of the southeastern United States, I don’t have a lot to offer that ties what we’ve been through into a neat little bow. In fact, there’s a bit of a through line in the essays of Abandoning

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