What is the purpose of the Christian life? Or of any life? Ephraim Radner proposes an answer: “mortal goods.” These he defines as “the sustained realities and possibilities of birth, growth, nurture, generation, weakening, caring and dying.” The tending and conservation of these goods, . . . . Continue Reading »
The medieval outlook on life and the cosmos still has contributions for the modern age. Continue Reading »
Winter is a bad time. Whether for a season or for a life, it dampens the self. Or so a recent writer claimed. “Mankind endured a long winter of the Dark Ages” for a thousand years, “repressing” the human spirit in a barren season that lasted centuries. The human individual, as fate would . . . . Continue Reading »
What does it mean to cultivate Christian wildness in North America? There are few markers of deep memory by which to orient ourselves to the work of concentration. Continue Reading »
There are many great books soon to be released on this side of the Atlantic. Here's a simple preview to get you ready. Continue Reading »
We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable books they read this year. Continue Reading »
The purpose of this column is to suggest books (some from 2022, some published earlier) that might appeal to various people on your Christmas gift list. Continue Reading »
It is intriguing to ask exactly how and why a particular positive idea of paganism became embedded in skeptical and secular discourse—and embedded so deeply, in many cases, that there seems little chance of public education dispelling it. Continue Reading »
Modern people, despite being drawn to medieval aesthetics and artificats, cannot seem to bear to examine what those artifacts are modeled on: the intelligible order glimpsed by the eye of faith. Continue Reading »
We are facing a Dark Age. In this new era, theology will need to be sparer, stripped of speculative distractions, courageously at home with death and the “other world,” and, most important, deeply engrossed in Scripture. Otherwise, the public face of the Christian faith will be washed away by . . . . Continue Reading »
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