When reputation erodes without cause, what remains?
Reputation has long been regarded as one of a person's most valuable possessions earned slowly, often through years of service, character, and loyalty to principle. Yet today, reputations can be dismantled with stunning speed, often without evidence, due process, or any
Reflective Commentary (2025)
The following essay was written in 2014 for one of my earliest doctoral courses at Faulkner University. Dr. Robert Woods led the course titled “Introduction to Human Letters."
An Evaluative Inquiry into the Life of the Modern Liberal Individual
Leisure and festivity together form the foundation
Reflective Commentary (2025)
This essay examines the layered meeting point of pagan and Christian traditions in Renaissance Florence, using the transformation of the Temple of Mars into the city's Baptistry as a symbol of wider cultural and theological interplay. My intent is not only to recount historical transitions
Reflective Commentary (2025)
Composed during the course of my doctoral research, this essay is presented as an original scholarly inquiry into the nuanced negotiations of faith, authority, and the hermeneutics of tradition. As with Underhill’s steady regard for the interior life and Ackroyd's measured historicism, my approach
Reflective Commentary (2025)
Looking back at this essay more than a decade after I first wrote it in 2014, I see how my thinking about "wasted time" has changed. When I wrote this as a doctoral student, leisure, contemplation, and intellectual growth were seen as important. Now, the
Reflective Commentary (2025)
On reflection, writing this essay was both a rigorous and rewarding endeavour. My intention was to break down Kant’s dense definition of ‘fine art’ into manageable parts in order to make sense of his philosophy for myself and, hopefully, for my readers. I approached this by
Reflective Commentary (The Modern Wall—Media Saturation in 2025)
Ray Bradbury published Fahrenheit 451 on October 19, 1953—seventy-two years ago, but who’s counting in decades when the man seemed to write in centuries?
Was he a prophet? Or something else; something we don’t quite have a word
