Beyond Bread and Circuses
Essays on living deliberately — finding the eternal in the everyday.
The Romans had a phrase for how the powerful keep a people quiet: panem et circenses — bread and circuses. Give them enough to eat and enough to watch, and they will not ask the harder questions. These essays are a refusal of that bargain. They argue that the ordinary stuff of a life — sport, money, work, family, faith — is never merely ephemeral, never only a distraction, but carries eternal weight for anyone willing to look.
Written by novelist Louis Berry, in the same voice and from the same convictions as the fiction.
A former Florida State punter on money, college sports, faith, and stability — why teaching young athletes to measure their value in mammon, instead of eternal principles, threatens to fracture families and society itself.
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