When Materialism Infringes on Religion’s Domain
What happens when our understanding of the world is split into the competing camps of science and religion? In the first part of this article series, we talked about the ...
07-9-2023
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Touching Photo of Father and Son Wins Father’s Day Photo Awards
Gan Jing World’s 2023 #GJWBestDad Hashtag Photo Awards recently announced the results of the Father's Day "Best Dad" photo contest. Suzi Anna’s winning submission of a father and ...
07-19-2023
Artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Penchant for Motherly Love
A sample of paintings by 19th-century French artist, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, expresses a talent fascinated by the tender beauty of womanhood. Regarded today as one of the best painters ...
05-14-2023
Miss NTD Global Chinese Beauty Pageant Celebrates Ancient Values
The New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Global Chinese Beauty Pageant combines beauty with a higher purpose through its mission to educate young Chinese women about their heritage. In its ...
05-12-2023
Morality, Politics, and Decline, Part 2: Freedom or Victimhood
Freedom of the will is something we all know; it’s obvious when we have acted freely, or when we have been under some sort of compulsion. At least, ...
05-7-2023
A Detectorist in a Royal English Court
A popular children’s pastime of hunting for buried treasure begins with dreams of unearthing pots of gold or a cache of jewels, but usually ends with potholes in ...
04-30-2023
Marie de’ Medici and the Continuation of the Medici Family Art Patronage
Of all the masterpieces in the Louvre, none has a more appropriate home than the 24 paintings glorifying the life and reign of Marie de' Medici, Queen of ...
04-25-2023
Motivation, Road-Blocks, and Self-Transformation
Self-help, personal development, self-improvement, learning and development, education—we have a million and one names for this process, but what they all boil down to is this age-old spiritual ...
04-9-2023
Easter: An Ancient Story for a Modern World
Billions of Christians will celebrate Easter this weekend, but the message of Jesus is available to all. Even those who are not religious can learn from the life ...
04-8-2023
Luxury and Devotion: Hans Memling’s Portinari Portraits
From a pitch-dark background emerge the faces of a man and a woman, facing each other with hands folded in prayer. Their countenances appear austere, their clothing plain ...
04-8-2023
Classical Sculpture and American Myth: Hiawatha
In the mid-19th century, when the United States was still in search of its own artistic tradition, the sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis (circa 1844–1907) traveled to the Old ...
03-25-2023
A Knight’s Tale: Ronald Lauder’s Arms and Armor
Long before the “Night at the Museum” movie franchise, The Metropolitan Museum of Art made a dynamic Hollywoodesque “knight at the museum” film entitled “A Visit to the ...
03-14-2023
Ancient Gandhara: Greek Art and Buddhist Statuary
When the ancient devotees of the Buddha Shakyamuni first represented "the enlightened one" in visual form, it was to Greek art that they turned, brought by Alexander the ...
03-5-2023
Our English Cousin: William Shakespeare and the Shaping of America
Shakespeare. Bring up that name in conversation, and the reactions of your audience are likely to be mixed. To some of your listeners, that most famous name in ...
03-1-2023
Visby Cathedral: Gotland Island’s Merchant Church
Once a strategic point for European merchants due to its proximity to the Baltic Sea, the old medieval town of Visby is filled with beautiful architecture. On the ...
02-19-2023
The Raggedy Boys’ Bard: Horatio Alger and the American Dream
For 50 years, his name was a household word. Horatio Alger Jr. (1832–1899) was the creator and chief proponent of the “rags to riches” story. Once his writing ...
02-13-2023
‘The 3 Tiers of Doctors Forum’: The Lower Tier Treats the Sick, the Middle Tier Treats People, the Higher Tier Treats the Country
Modern-day life is stimulating, to say the least—and our fast-paced routines may be accompanied by stress, tension, anxiety, and mental exhaustion. For many people, maintaining good physical health ...
01-27-2023
The Family Portraits of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Families who lived in France during the Napoleonic era made strong and resilient homes in their country. Their homes were built not of bricks and mortar, but of ...
01-7-2023
Hector, Achilles, and Toxic Masculinity
In Homer’s poem “The Iliad,” the Trojan hero Hector and the Greek hero Achilles are destined for a showdown from the very beginning. The poem marches with unwavering ...
01-2-2023
The First Crèche: Arnolfo di Cambio’s Nativity
Nativity scenes reign supreme as the most charming image of Christmas. An assortment of figures from splendid kings to simple shepherds with a few animals—exotic or domestic—gather around ...
12-25-2022
Winter Wonder Lands: Some Poems for the Season
Drive south down I-95 in the new year, and you’ll join a fleet of cars with license plates from New York, Massachusetts, and Canada. These are the “snow ...
12-5-2022
Poet Phyllis McGinley: Champion of Marriage, the Family, and Tradition
Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978) was a victim of cancel culture long before that idea existed. After she won the 1961 Pulitzer for her poetry—the first American poet ever to ...
10-3-2022
Nobility, Valor, and a Great King: England’s King Alfred: G.K. Chesterton’s ‘The Ballad of the White Horse’
He was a big man, standing 6 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing nearly 300 pounds. To that mountainous physique, add his characteristic appearance in public—a pince-nez, capes ...
09-27-2022