Tag Archives: Walter Russell Mead

Mead-the mother of meaning

Posted on December 22, 2016 by theoutwardquest

Each year around Christmas it has become my habit to read something from Walter Russell Mead’s Yule Blog. Mead usually writes about politics, especially geopolitics. But he is a Christian. And each year he reflects about the meaning of Christmas. … Continue reading →

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Walter Russell Mead-Jesus and the failure of the moral approach

Posted on December 29, 2015 by theoutwardquest

Every year around Christmas Walter Russell Mead writes about Jesus at a blog called Via Meadia.  He calls this his Yuletide blog.  He usually teaches and writes about politics and foreign policy, but he is the son of a clergyman and … Continue reading →

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Berkouwer-the way of humiliation

Posted on November 21, 2014 by theoutwardquest

I am doing a seasonal reflection on G. C. Berkouwer’s The Work of Christ.  Leading up to Christmas, I am reading the chapters about the Incarnation. The least important thing about Jesus was his teaching.  That was the position Walter … Continue reading →

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Ike Skelton and political honor

Posted on February 5, 2014 by theoutwardquest

We have been in Florida for a few weeks.  Our motive was to escape a really cold January in Missouri.  That worked for a while, but now we are back in Missouri. It is February and still cold.  Plus there was … Continue reading →

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Walter Russell Mead’s Yule Blogs

Posted on December 31, 2013 by theoutwardquest

I have linked to Walter Russell Mead before.  He specializes in writing about world politics, but sometimes ventures into spiritual topics. This Christmas he has published a series of thoughtful essays as Yule Blogs. In this essay he makes a … Continue reading →

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About the conclave

Posted on March 9, 2013 by theoutwardquest

Walter Russell Mead goes behind the media dramatics to talk some sense about the conclave to choose a new pope. In the West the standard rap on Catholicism is that the Church is collapsing as its adherents drift from the … Continue reading →

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