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How we use our free time might be the difference between a professionally successful but ultimately mediocre life and the life of a saint.

We've made it all the way from the overstepping of Orpheus, the land, and poetry into something our own lives can do (spill over as though water from a fountain--or,…

On Politics, Spirituality, Walt Whitman, and the Healing of the United States

The right kind of literature has the power to make the immediate visible to us once again.

Insofar as "The Bee" now occupies something near the center of American Christian discourse, what’s crowded out, I think, is an articulated (not just implied-by-negation) path toward holiness . .…

One of the most curious things about raising two boys seventeen years apart is the divide I feel in their digital generations.

Scott was a scholar of reciprocity, collaboration, and a kind of stubborn agrarianism that is the opposite of romantic and a requisite of real, existing democracy. Let him rest in…

A weary, hungry child is walking through the forest, the emerald-green hues of the dense foliage gleaming shyly in the rays of a young summer day. From far above, the…

Encouraged, not only by the burgeoning online-use of Oldenburg’s term "third place," but by a young person’s desire to engage with it, I decided to reach out to Madison.

Building community doesn’t map well into the high value we place on choice at the individual level.

Some good things can only exist at the person-to-person level. To institutionalize them drains them of their moral power.

Rather than focusing on an abundance of produced goods, focus on an abundance of productive land; rather than building an orientation around increasing supply, build an orientation around the collective…

Piers Gelly describes how students responded when he invited AI into their classroom.

We knew last year’s streak was something special, and now we know it may have been the start of something.

How school uniforms foster a common life in an age of fragmentation.

I distinctly remember on Christmas morning ...

Literacy anchors us to our surroundings and our heritage. It acquaints us with the particulars and holds us in the web of relations.

Perhaps the choice not to have a computer is more a choice not to play pretend.

Sally Thomas remembers the wry and wonderful formalist poet Jane Greer.

Why didn’t Fabre gaze out into the heavens, like Copernicus and Galileo, instead of down at these grotesque little monsters?

It turns out that while you can take the man out of the Xaverians, it is more difficult to take the Xaverian out of the man.

Socrates encounters many of the same rhetorical stunts that we run into on the Internet today.

We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.

Blood and violence and death are on every page; however, trace that which has fallen back to its original height, especially the moment in the barn where all the rough…