May 25, 2020
There are those, this very day, who would take your freedom from you; for your own good, of course. In a moral universe, there are competing values, and you can't have all values equally. Wars begin in conflicting ideas and values. This is why we memorialize our beloved dead. The next time you sit at a corner cafe,...
May 22, 2020
G. K. Chesterton wrote, “take away the supernatural and what remains is the unnatural.” When we lose an appreciation for “the useless”, we lose the ability to see, and to hear, what is close to us; what should be apparent becomes obscure. In this episode we look at the concept of prayer; because to understand...
May 10, 2020
G. K. Chesterton wrote: “How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?” Today on ASF, a rumination on the importance...
May 8, 2020
We need food. We need water. Food and water feed our bodies. If Aristotle is right we need friends; friends who are “useless”. They are the most valuable of friends. But what does friendship feed? Friendship does not feed the body. Perhaps our need for friendship, perhaps this highest expression of virtue, reveals...