Old Men Shall Dream Dreams
by John WilsonThe Christian intellectual world should invest in starting a new review of books. Continue Reading »
The Christian intellectual world should invest in starting a new review of books. Continue Reading »
My friend J, a computer programmer, once convinced his former roommate—also a programmer—to watch the Japanese art film Asako I & II, about a woman who falls in love with two identical-looking but different men. J’s roommate sat patiently through this intricate, two-hour . . . . Continue Reading »
Russians take positions to the extreme. As a result, Russian intellectual history shows us where ideas may lead—and in Russia’s case, really did. The English prided themselves on moderation and suspicion of radical abstractions, but Russians regarded anything short of ultimate positions as . . . . Continue Reading »
There was a time when the Church shaped Western high art, particularly art music, as distinct from folk or pop music. That era has been over for centuries, yet the impetus for composers to engage with spirituality has endured. There has been no shortage of scholars in recent decades endeavoring to . . . . Continue Reading »
Carson Holloway joins the podcast to discuss his new book Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe. Continue Reading »
RJ Snell joins the podcast to discuss his new book Lost in the Chaos. Continue Reading »
There’s a poem by John Donne that makes a presence of an absence; his absent love becomes as real to the speaker and more fully his than if she were present. This could illustrate what Katherine Rundell wants us to see in the work of John Donne, seventeenth-century metaphysical poet and preacher, . . . . Continue Reading »
Why did Eve bite the apple? Milton puts this question at the center of Paradise Lost, the greatest long poem in English. Why did Eve listen to Satan, pluck the apple from the tree, and take a bite? This temptation bears on us now. Satan always hides in plain sight. So it’s no surprise . . . . Continue Reading »
Tara Isabella Burton's novel Here in Avalon hints that life can be guided by unchosen and given quests, lived out in a world teeming with real angels and mysterious human souls. Continue Reading »
Dale Ahlquist joins the podcast to discuss his new book Continue Reading »
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