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The Front Porch Academy


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Faculty


(IC)

"The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate" by mewithoutYou

"Prayer: A Mystery of Silence" by a Carthusian

"One Heart" by Franz Wright

"Adoration Vigil for Holy Thursday Night" by Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete

"Epistle to the Ostensible Church" by Scott Cairns

"The Oaks in Winter" by Micheal O'Brien

"The Chase" by Annie Dillard


"Tim" (AG)

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

"Catholic Novelists and Their Readers" by Flannery O'Connor

"Biglietto Speech" by John Henry Cardinal Newman

"Regensburg Address" by Pope Bendict XVI


"September" (MA)

"To Love Fasting: Or Why Officers Eat Last" by Br. Joshua Morey

"The Objective" by Wendell Berry

"Victim of Jihad: The Life and Death of Charles de Foucauld" by K. V. Turley


"Duns Scotus" (JB)

"The Blessings of Liberty: Reminders from Aristotle and Livy For Our Troubled Times" by Andrew T. Seeley

"Benedict XVI, Doctor of Reason" by Matthew Walz

"Portia's Powerful Tongue: The Ethics of Lady Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice" by Scott F. Crider


"Tom Bombadil" (AP)

"The Student" by Anton Checkov

"What I Found in My Pocket" by G. K. Chesterton

"Cheese" by G. K. Chesterton


"Myrmidon" (IT)

"Evangelizing the Nones" by Bishop Robert Barron

"Choosing to Refuse" by John Waters

"Mass Shootings and Emile Durkheim" by John Waters

"Capital Punishment and the Sex Abuse Crisis" by Michael Pakaluk

"Contrapuntal Order" by John Ahern


"Air Force One" (LD)

"Drop, Drop, Slow Tears" by Orlando Gibbons

"Sicut Cervus" by Palestrina

"Spiritual Friendship" by Aelred of Rievaulx

"Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor


(SK)

"Pandora's Devices: Managing the Miseries of the Machine" by Peco and Ruth Gaskovski

"Machine Antidote 101: How to Apprentice a Human" by Peco and Ruth Gaskovski

"From Feeding Moloch to 'Digital Minimalism'" by Ruth Gaskovski


"Gilbert Keith"(DG)

"A Piece of Chalk" by G. K. Chesterton

"Intolerance in the Coming Order" by Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"Kant's Account of Reason" by Garrath Williams

"Ontological Proof for the Existence of God" (pp 398-404) by Kurt Godel

"Adjoint Modality" (a math formalization of Hegel's principle of dialectics) by Urs Schreiber


"Thomas Aquinas" (JB)

"Infused Virtue and the Effects of Acquired Vice: A Test Case for the Thomistic Theory of Infused Cardinal Virtues" by Michael Sherwin, O.P.

"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor

"The Instrumental Causality of the Sacraments: Thomas Aquinas and Louis-Marie Chauvet" by Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P.

"The Awakening Imagination: Image, Idol, Object, Icon" by Michael O'Brien


"Lord Emsworth" (BD)

"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell

"The Enduring Chill" by Flannery O'Connor

"A View of Abortion with Something to Offend Everybody" by Walker Percy

"The Same Again, Please" by Evelyn Waugh


"Xenia" (CA)

"Locating Heaven" by Br. Thomas Davenport, O.P.

"The Hound of Heaven" by Francis Thompson


"Puddleglum" (MS)

The Carthusian Rosary by Dominic of Prussia


(SC)

"Room for Christ" by Dorothy Day

"An Onion" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace


"Sir Ulrich" (AC)

"The 3 P's of Manhood" by Brett McKay

"How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy

"What's Expected of Us" by Ted Chiang

"President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address"

"Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, And They're Not Keeping It Secret" by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries et al


"Mrs. Chesterton" (NG)

"On Running After One's Hat" by G. K. Chesterton

"James, Paul, and Justification at the Council of Trent" by Shane Kapler

"Little Talks" by Monsters and Men


"Olympia" (JH)

"La Noche Oscura del Alma" by Saint Juan de la Cruz

"The Dark Night of the Soul" by Saint John of the Cross


"Jerry Tackleberry" (BL)

"Into the Breach" by Bishop Thomas Olmstead

"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville

"The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service


"Tex Johnston" (IB)

"The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics" by Bret C. Devereaux

"The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" by Jean Baudrillard

"The Wonderful One-Hoss-Shay" by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"On Ethnographic Authority" by James Clifford


"Battin" (DT)

"The Paganism and the New Church" by Joseph Ratzinger.


(CC)

"Parker's Back" by Flannery O'Connor


"Fletcher" (SH)

"The Principles of Newspeak," an appendix to 1984 by Goerge Orwell


(EG)

"Sweet Land of Michigan" by James Matthew Wilson


"Pitbull" (PL)

Eagerly awaiting submissions


"Nacho-Man" (JH)

Eagerly awaiting submissions

Housekeeping


"Tarwater" (CA)

"A Manifesto in Quotes" by Tarwater

"A Republic of Front Porches" by Patrick Deneen

"The Weight of Glory" by C. S. Lewis

"Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God" by Simone Weil

"The Love of God and Affliction" by Simone Weil

"How to Be a Poet" by Wendell Berry

"Why We Do Not Own a Television" by Mark Schiffman

"The Idea of a Local Economy" by Wendell Berry

"Politics, Philosophy, and the Common Good" by Alasdair MacIntyre

"Bobos in Paradise" by David Brooks

"Music," a chapter from The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

"Goldfish" by A. A. Milne