The Nightstand

Tolkien, Philosopher of War

Tolkien offers a cautious approval of brutalist buildings and a full-throated one of trees.

Between Spirituality and Literature

The resulting work is by turns wise and questioning, witty and candid, self-effacing and impassioned.

Watching the Tide Come In

You’re forgiven, your future right here, given for you.

Let us Converse Together (Without Our Phones)

Bilbro’s book is a careful study through profound literary texts about how we live in a world that has no patience for careful study through profound literary texts.

Minding Laurie Johnson’s Gap

President Trump has been in office a month as of today, and the maelstrom of orders and actions which he has taken has elicited...

Is Ross Douthat Our C.S. Lewis?

I come to praise Douthat, not to bury him.

On Nosferatu, Moloch, and AI

Sometimes, it’s okay to be scared. At the very worst, it’s just a story.

Why Can’t We Be Friends?

"Is Christianity only politically efficacious in helping us determine who are our friends and who are our enemies?"

Gárces’s Travels: A Review of Jeremy Beer’s Beyond the Devil’s Road

Much might be said about the neglect of the history of the American Southwest

Marking the Year on Two Calendars: An Interview with Matthew Miller

Knowledge is a path to love, and so I’m bound to say that the book did change my affection for the place.