Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Giving Your Testimony
The national consensus seems to be that more is better. Hamburgers? Make them gargantuan, to the point…
Staircase Over the Void
Thinking Without a Banister sounds like a freethinker’s slogan, a refusal of the supports of authority, tradition,…
“Among the Dangs”
On June 6, Sheila Liming, an assistant professor of literature at the University of North Dakota, tweeted…
The Man Who Stole the World
When it comes to the great questions of existence, the real divide may be not between Christians…
Solzhenitsyn’s Prophecy
Versions of these remarks were delivered this spring at the commencement ceremony for the Mount Academy of…
Thinking Under the Influence
You know you’re getting old when trimming your toenails becomes an ordeal. They don’t look as if…
The Lesser Angels of Our Nature
The lesser angels of our present dangerArraign the better angels of our natureAnd rearrange the stature of…
Return to St. Thomas
Here we are, with four children, at late Mass, The nave a bloated hull of tin, the…
Humanities and Communities
We communicate more today than at any time in history. Social media platforms, online fora, video chats,…
Shadow Show
In the last fifty years, Artemisia Gentileschi has risen to new eminence. She originally gained fame among…
The View from Here Is Glory
This Our Exile by joshua hren angelico press, 142 pages, $18 What is “Catholic fiction”? Must it…
The Impermanence of Place
When I was young, I had a recurring dream. I’d be walking home from grade school—it was…
Versions of Paul
The mostly Baptist congregations in which I grew up included only a handful of academically trained biblical…
The Cosmic Gamemaker
Integrating God+Love+Lawby luis tellezwitherspoon, 80 pages, $12 In Integrating God+Love+Law, Luis Tellez urges readers, especially his target…
The Cloud of Unknowing
Despite the doubt and forked ambivalence,Approach, avoid, ignore, yet hope to shareIn some impossible benevolence,To care and…
