“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” - C.S. Lewis

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.” — Teddy Roosevelt, November 11, 1902. No one exemplifies this ethic more than America's veterans. Today we remember not only their sacrifice, but what

SIGNED & DELIVERED: President Trump signs bill reopening the government. 🇺🇸 For 43 days, Democrats shut down the government, trying to extort billions from taxpayers for illegal aliens. Today's message: Republicans won't give in.

Six days you shall labor, not five, but six. In his book The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, author Edmund Morris detailed Roosevelt's activities: 7:00 a.m. Breakfast 7:30 a.m. A speech 8:00 a.m. Reading a historical work 9:00 a.m. A speech 10:00 a.m. Dictating letters 11:00 a.m.

I have just finished my second complete read-through of the Bible. I’m sad to confess it took me longer than it should have. We should all regularly be trying to read through the greatest book (collection of books) as often as we can through our short lives. Wisdom lies in those

Roosevelt called for “the strenuous life,” not as spectacle but as a civic duty. Strong character and steady judgment scale outward into strong institutions. Renew the citizen, renew the nation.

The School of Athens, 1509-1511, by Raffaello

Bring it back. Make it great again!

Historically this would be fairly unremarkable, as the hallmark of university education was fluency in classical languages and rhetorical mastery. It's good to see it making a comeback; I wonder how many of the Harvard graduates now can follow along.

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” - Philippians 4:4-6

This new Trump winter aesthetic goes hard. Very Italian.

Banger. Happy Lord’s Day!

Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.

“Crown him the Lord of love, behold his hands and side, rich wounds, yet visible above, in beauty glorified; no angel in the sky can fully bear that sight, but downward bends his burning eye at mysteries so bright.”

Signore e signori, vi presento un minuetto composto dal grande Luigi Boccherini, uno dei più eccellenti maestri italiani dell'epoca classica.

In Book I of his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, the last of the Five Good Emperors, writes that his great-grandfather handed down this very wise lesson: "to avoid public schools, to hire good private teachers, and to accept the resulting costs as money well-spent." Jeremy Wayne Tate