Throughout my childhood, my family went on yearly camping trips to the Rocky Mountains. My parents both studied science in college and graduate school and often pulled my siblings and me to the side of the hiking trail to teach us the names of the wildflowers or to show the hoofprint left by a deer....
On a visit to Russell Kirk’s country home, Piety Hill, in Mecosta, Michigan last summer, I explored the grounds of his property — the sprawling lawns under sycamore trees he planted for each of his daughters, the wood-paneled library full of his favorite books, the Italianate house decorated with swords, sacred images, and oriental carpets....
Self-reflection and inner reformation are essential to the fruitful Christian life. “In antiquity, the Latin noun reformatio referred to the changing of a bad present situation by returning to the good and better times of the past,” notes a recent Vatican letter from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. This letter recalls the Reformation’s...
Hillsdale College will present honorary degrees to five friends of the college at commencement on May 11. Honorary degrees are awarded every year. In addition to the commencement speaker, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), this year’s recipients will include Don and Lois Thorson and John and Joan Babbitt. “They are people who have been friends of...
With the eyes and hands of a sculptor, Associate Professor of Art Anthony Frudakis calls art “a reflection of the divine in us.” “To be inspired you have to have a receptivity. And to have a receptivity, you have to have humility. You enter into it, saying, ‘I am open.’ ” Frudakis said, explaining how...