Category: philosophical counseling
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Memorial Day, Quarantine Fatigue, And Dried-up Secular Culture
Memorial Day Many mainstream news outlets reported that partygoers failed to observe social distancing guidelines at a Lake of the Ozarks Memorial Day party that was jam-packed with people. While no laws were broken, Missouri officials have since recommended that anyone who attended the party voluntarily quarantine himself or herself for 14 days. This shouldn’t…
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Work Is Nothing Special: See This And Be Free
One thing that has become clearer to me since reading Michael Walzer’s The Revolution of the Saints (1965) is that we probably owe our fetishization of work in key part and in one specific way to the Puritans. Let me explain. What’s interesting about Puritans is that they averred that each believer had a “particular calling,” one, to…
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Michael Walzer’s The Revolution Of The Saints: The Discipline Of Work And The Discipline Of Faith
Fittingly perhaps, I just finished reading Michael Walzer’s The Revolution of the Saints: A Study of the Origins of Radical Politics (1965). Walzer’s subject is Calvinism on the continent and Puritanism in England. His aim is to shed fresh light on what crucial role Puritan theology, ideology, and conduct played in the creation of a Puritan…
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What Mayor De Blasio’s Order Tells Us About The Wasteland Called Secular Modernity
A Hasidic Funeral On April 28 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a reported 2500 Hasidic Jewish men and women came out to mourn the death of a beloved Hasidic rabbi. Eye witness reports described the streets as packed with people, many of whom were neither wearing masks nor obeying social distancing. In an especially dramatic and forceful…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 