THE LOST CENTER OF CIVILIZATION | PART 7 “What you are called to is not a new set of beliefs, but a recovery of memory.” — An Ancient Christian Maxim We have traced the arc of a hollowing civilization. In the first six parts, we witnessed the inversion of social…
THE LOST CENTER OF CIVILIZATION | PART 2 “God is love.” — 1 John 4:8 “If God [Love] is not, everything is permitted.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky The West tells itself a story: that modern science and secularism defeated the tyranny of Christendom, the civilization built under the rule of the…
THE LOST CENTER OF CIVILIZATION | PART 1 “When the center fails to hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” — W.B. Yeats The West was once bound by a shared center. It offered an understanding of what a human being is, what constitutes virtue, and where authority derives…