Tag: St. Augustine
Reading Petrarch’s Secretum with College Sophomores
When Petrarch uses Augustine to call himself out for being bound and dragged down by the “chains of love and glory,” students are forced to consider what it is they are pursuing, in college and in life.
Sacred Reality: The Augustinian Vision of Goodness in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead
Robinson presents us with an encounter: a participatory, embodied experience; a blessed and broken reality; the sacraments. And from this encounter, we receive courageous eyes to see the precious things that have been placed in our hands and to honor them accordingly.
Augustine the Agrarian
The world is God’s farm, his flourishing garden. We find ourselves as his workers in his fields, called to cultivate the land and the souls, minds, and bodies of ourselves and our neighbors—in this way all can be “fruitful and multiply.”
Brass Spittoon: Bradley Birzer on Christian Humanism
Bradley Birzer on Christian humanism, judging the past, memory, and gratitude.
“Ordered Toward your Becoming”: On Natalie Carnes’s Motherhood: A Confession
In our current moment of social media activism, we must ask ourselves what kind of learning, real learning—the kind that involves your body and takes root in your soul—can take place without embodiment? And what kind of real embodiment takes place without participating in the grief and suffering of another?