Sarah Reardon

Sarah Reardon (formerly Soltis) teaches at a classical Christian school. Her writing has appeared in First Things, Public Discourse, Plough, and elsewhere. She served as FPR’s Managing Editor while in college.
Articles by Sarah Reardon
On Lear, Lent, and Christian Tragedy
The man of faith knows that even the deepest darkness may be irradiated
Welcoming a Baby in Advent
Like Mary and all Israel waiting for the Messiah, like a mother welcoming a child, we are to “wait for it with patience.”
Figures of Death and Deathlessness
But our culture’s celebration of Halloween suggests that we know yet more. We sense not only that we are dust and will return to it; we also sense that life…
Working for the Life Beyond Words
In his brief and not altogether satisfying rejoinder to the question, “why write?” Berry says, “To serve that triumph I have done all the rest,” and he ends the poem…
On College, Careers, and Aspirations for Home
These modern forms threaten the desire for familial and communal life—an aspiration traditionally associated with conservatism, especially the conservatism inherited from Aristotle, Cicero, and Burke. The spirit of the careerist…