Posts by Walker Larson

“One doesn’t realize in early life that the price of freedom is loneliness. To be happy one must be tied.”

The mind of the sheep remains a frontier unconquered by science and technology. And I'm glad of that.

Here are some of the key scientific findings that strongly indicate the existence of a Creator.

Our capacity to remain peacefully introspective – at least sometimes – helps us be more truly present and available to others the rest of the time.

One does not need any special qualifications to begin to reintegrate family, community, craftsmanship, economics, education, art, faith, and politics in one’s own backyard. One need only be human.

I am convinced that our economic system ought to be built on actual relationships amongst people who know one another's names, not vast and inscrutable systems where customers are just numbers, sellers are faceless, and “old-timers” can be fired at the drop of a hat.

The story of the microschool is the story of how something old can be made new again, and how the adaptation of a traditional model to a modern circumstance can provide a solution to contemporary problems.

The new power brokers – online influencers – are subject to the same temptations toward ratings, money grabs, and surrender to ideology to which mainstream media yielded.

The reality of Christ’s Resurrection suffuses all of creation (include human sub-creations, like art) with light and directionality. And that direction is out of the tomb.

Will we be looked at as a people who fell short, lost their way, and wasted and wore away their cultural heritage? Will future peoples look at an American penny the way I look at my Roman coins?

By our little efforts at hospitality, perhaps we can atone a little for that gigantic injustice, the inhospitality of the cosmos when its Creator wished to be its guest.

The inhabitant of the integrated city lives a more integrated and therefore a more human life. Such is the power of architecture and design. Urban design should foster this kind of authentic living, not inhibit it.

These are simple things. Elemental. All we need to do is begin with these ordinary things right in front of us. Like the mustard seed of the Gospel, what we plant now will grow into something far beyond our reckoning.

Even though mutual desire between man and woman is natural and good, love cannot stop there. It must go further, especially as the couple grows older.

If the alt-media is to survive and serve its proper function – which certainly includes challenging and unmasking the corruption in our public institutions – it must avoid discrediting itself the same way that the mainstream media has done.

Just as we want to give our children healthy food to become part of their body, we want to give them healthy sensory, imaginative, and emotional inputs to become part of their souls and shape them in an upright manner.

The simple life is a legitimate desire, symptomatic of our sense that something has gone wrong, that our techno-industrial world, for all its advantages, has proven to be a Faustian bargain.

AI developments are just the most obvious and extreme form of a deeper trend that’s been playing out for years.

The current conservative infighting reveals a movement stuck in cynicism and self-attack, having lost sight of its true task: conserving and building a hopeful, positive vision grounded in enduring principles.

This is the stuff of a life: uncountable moments, fragments of experience, trends and stages, that somehow form a coherent – though mysterious – whole. Each journey of a life is unrepeatable, the world inside each heart irreplaceable.

Christmas traditions that repeat year after year offer us a glimpse of eternity, helping us transcend the changes, sufferings, and losses that occur with each passing year.

History is real. It happened to real people, in real physical places. That is why monuments and ruins matter.

Thus, the intuitions of ancient philosophers align with the findings of modern scientists: human beings are made for connection with one another and with a higher power. Fulfilling these aspects of our nature makes us happy.

It is this loss of the sense of the real – with all the dire implications that has for philosophy, morality, culture, and religion – that is perhaps the most concerning aspect of the growing dominance of digital life.

Remembering the dead forces us to slow down and recall the tragedies and triumphs of our ancestors’ stories, which are a part of our own story, whether we like it or not.

The modern mania for speed, efficiency, and control has run wild, sending us careening off the cliff of common sense and into a brave new world where we’d rather not be bothered even to tell our own stories or sing our own songs.

My advice to men? Make something. Build a legacy. Be a leader. Don’t let your presence on earth result in a zero sum or – heaven forbid – a net loss