Dr. Larry D. Harwood is a layman in the Anglican Church in North America in Wisconsin. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and History at Viterbo University and the author ofMedieval Civilization: Formation, Fruition, Finality and Fall (2016), and two collections of short stories, Sacred in a Secular Age (2020) and Struggle in a Secular Age (2013). Harwood has in preparation an historical novel of religious migration set in contemporary China and America and entitled The Bicyclists. His book Mad About Belief: Religion in the Life and Thought of Bertrand Russell was published in 2024.
The Triumph of the Slippers: On the Withdrawal from the World. By Pascal Bruckner. Translated by Cory Stockwell. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2024. 118 pp. $19.95 (hardback). The thesis of this book is presented on the second page: “This generation is in no way ready to face adversity.” The author contends that some of the…
I remember teaching a university church history course when an astute student remarked that in times of cultural change, history “gallops” in a way noticeably different from its usual snail’s pace. The strident and swift changes brought to American culture recently are noticeable symptoms of aggressive and visible secularism that seeks to undermine traditional orthodox…
