Christianity 61
On Lear, Lent, and Christian Tragedy
The man of faith knows that even the deepest darkness may be irradiated
In Search of Solace
Death often challenges our view of the physical and invisible worlds.
Localism, Immigration, and the Ordo Amoris
Take one of your neighbors to coffee and learn their story
Time Keeps on Slippin’
God invites us to experience life in a timeless eternity. Real life.
“Ordo Amoris” and ending Burnout Culture
Only then can attention and passion be directed in the most life-giving ways and only then can a healthy culture emerge from a disconnected and attenuated one.
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
"Is Christianity only politically efficacious in helping us determine who are our friends and who are our enemies?"
Virgil and the Christian Imagination
love is the most powerful force in the world.
The Biblical Case for Conservation
The Bible tells us there is life within the Kingdom—life for us and life for what is around us.
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
Where Can Wisdom Be Found? -Gambling Pigeons, the Quest for Wisdom, and the Irreducibility of Poetry
Poetry must be experienced, and the experience of poetry is itself a means of searching, a kind of hunting, for wisdom.
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.”
The True Face of Justice is Compassion
He took the words of Jesus to heart—he rarely judged others. When he passed this year, he left a memory not of condemnation, but of mercy.
Jordan Peterson: From America’s Dad to America’s Guru
Christianity spread because people actually believed Jesus was their Lord and Savior. They believed in miracles not metaphors.
At Home with James Matthew Wilson
However, in St. Thomas and the Forbidden Birds, James Matthew Wilson shows that the seeds of a rebirth of civilization are to be planted and nurtured in the soil of…
Searching for The Thing: A Review of The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever
While she relates the years of kaleidoscopic confusion, she provides waypoints to keep the reader grounded: “This is where we are, and this is where we’re going.”
Nadya Williams and The Good News
Williams reminds us of a lesson that we should have already learned good and hard, namely that rejection of Christianity does not result in blissful liberation and self-expression.
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…
The Miraculous Phenomenon of Post-Hurricane Weather
When Christ died on the cross, the disciples did not know he was going to rise again. But for Christians today, we see the full picture, and these are not…
Falling is Not Failure, and Getting up is Not the Point
Life knocks us down. It is the price of this world, however much we may kid ourselves otherwise. Our falls become part of us.
An Invitation to a Different Story: A Review of Letters to a Future Saint
Christianity is not merely a doctrine to believe but a life to live and embody. East understands this and invites Future Saints into a different imagination and way of life.
Slange Var!
When we toast we celebrate our fight against the forces of darkness and evil.
Up From Hell: Timothy G. Patitsas’s The Ethics of Beauty
Look at what has sometimes happened to Christian architecture in America, for example; tragic declines in quality are matched by the inability of people to even notice how bad it…
Pastoring while Living in the Trenches of Prison
Pastoral ministry in prison can change lives, but it doesn’t magically erase the pain of incarceration.
Prickly Porcupine on Natural Law: A Review of David Lyle Jeffrey’s Tales From Limerick Forest
Hence this book is something special: a new set of Christian fables on natural law that do more than teach simple morals or seek to modify children’s behavior.