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Rethinking the American Experiment

January 6, 2015 Jerry Salyer 0

In the aftermath of a terrible civil war pitting brother against brother, the Theban ruler Creon ordered the body of the traitor Polynices, his own nephew, be left unburied outside the city walls, to be […]

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Tolkien and Beowulf

August 23, 2014 Jerry Salyer 0

  At morn King Hrothgar on his throne for his lieges slain there mourned alone but Grendel gnawed the flesh and bone of the thirty thanes of Denmark. A ship there sailed like a wingéd […]

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The Search for Soul in a Fallen World

May 22, 2014 Jerry Salyer 0

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” — Albert […]