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Jess never missed calling me today, even when I was half a world away. This marks the eleventh year that my phone will not ring.

Laurie Johnson is teaching an introduction to Aristotle's virtue ethics for the Maurin Academy this summer. The schedule and details are here: We need a solid understanding of ethics now…

It never fails—whenever Benes defends low culture, he does so in the exact terms that he ought to be using to criticize it

“In Due Season.” Chris Gregorio reviews and praises Matt Miller’s Leaves of Healing: “As he reflects on each slice of liturgical time and the period of garden time in which…

A peaceful crisis response paves the way for restoration and wholeness.

The man of faith knows that even the deepest darkness may be irradiated

Whether the remains of St. James lie there or not, most of our band will likely return again to travel a new way to Santiago.

O’Connor’s fiction does not offer sentimental portraits of faith—it tests faith.

Next time we’re drinking bourbon together, I look forward to telling him that he’s got all the right impulses and is coming to the wrong conclusions.

As my hibernal title indicates, my sense is that this trajectory will be difficult.

The longtime editor-in-chief of World magazine discusses the Zenger Prize, his new gig at Christianity Today, the temptations of conservative politics (compassionate or otherwise), and his memoir Pivot Points.   …

“Can Using a Dumber Phone Cure ‘Brain Rot’?” Bryan X. Chen tells readers of the New York Times that there’s nothing we can do in the face of our society’s…

Christ’s resurrection offers assurance in the face of inevitable, implacable death. But it doesn’t come easily

It’s time to give the kids a better life script, to give them something more to aspire to than slumping over a screen for the rest of their lives.

This year the big boys dominated.

Within five years you could have a tiny piece of managed nature, in which more birds sing than you would have thought possible

Above all, our culture needs an inward right. We need a right wing concerned with the soul and its restoration.

I moved on, but I realized in that moment that I hadn’t adequately answered the student’s question

“Can We Go to the Neighbourhood?” Amber Lapp has a lovely essay on how her daughter helped her live in her neighborhood: “The sight of this toddler in a sparkly…

Determining the exact role of posture is impossible, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important for general human health.

Many who grieve have discovered that we are not weaker but stronger in our newfound awareness of what matters to us.

may they receive the many gifts the black intellectual tradition has to offer

Perhaps most importantly, however, we need to return to encouraging each other to keep commitments,

Tarkington hopes that more Americans will choose to trek that path of fruitful tension in this fragmented world, however difficult it may prove.