Figures of Death and Deathlessness
Pennsylvania has bestowed, thus far, a warm and sunny autumn upon us. As my husband and I venture out on our evening walks, we are met with all the beauties of a gentle autumn: slowly changing trees...
View ArticleNadya Williams and The Good News
I commend to your attention Nadya Williams’s outstanding new book, Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity. There are many things to say about...
View ArticleSearching for The Thing: A Review of The Thing That Would Make Everything...
I approached Ashley Lande’s The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever with more curiosity than anything. A pre-existing deep spiritual sensitivity and a really bad experience with a marijuana...
View ArticleAt Home with James Matthew Wilson
Throughout the twentieth century, scorn for everyday modern life was largely the province of the political left. Whether channeled through Old Left’s condemnation of the conventional family, Left Bank...
View ArticleJordan Peterson: From America’s Dad to America’s Guru
Richard Dawkins thinks Jordan Peterson is “drunk on symbols.” And there is a certain resemblance between an inebriated man and Peterson’s rambling, associative, imaginative style in his recent...
View ArticleThe True Face of Justice is Compassion
He stands shivering in an open grave. His face is caked in make-up; light fabric flows about his body; one foot throbs uncomfortably in a platform heel. He looks up at a priest standing over the pit....
View ArticleWelcoming a Baby in Advent
“Imagine what it would have been like for Mary,” my husband suggested. He spoke in a tone that, as I see now, was not as calm and reassuring as I had then thought–for he, too, felt fearful as we sped...
View ArticleWhere Can Wisdom Be Found? -Gambling Pigeons, the Quest for Wisdom, and the...
He puts his hand on the hard rock; he overturns mountains by the roots. He cuts out tunnels in the rocks, and his eye sees every treasure. He dams up rivers from their sources, and he brings secret...
View ArticleGárces’s Travels: A Review of Jeremy Beer’s Beyond the Devil’s Road
“No man of his age was better suited to introduce the Christian faith to the longtime residents of New Spain’s frontier.” Much might be said about the neglect of the history of the American Southwest....
View ArticleThe Biblical Case for Conservation
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Over six days God created the morning and evening, the sky and waters, the land and sea, the stars in the night sky, the birds, fish, plants,...
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