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Craig Bernthal: Tolkien asserts that reading fairy stories is a way to ‘recover’ the world” - Mythopoeic power
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G. K. Chesterton on the convergence of omnipotence and impotence in Bethlehem - Bemused by joy
Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., on G. K. Chesterton’s awareness of the reality of both evil and joy - The (super)natural theology of fairy-tales
Alison Milbank describes Chesterton’s belief that story-telling is an affirmation of transcendent meaning
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Jeff Bilbro discusses the 50th anniversary edition of Wendell Berry’s (1934–2026) The Unsettling of America (Counterpoint Press, 2026). Bilbro explores Berry’s insights into American gnosticism, the differences between exploiters and nurturers, and the war between technique and virtue. This broad-ranging conversation reveals the depth and vigor of Berry’s legacy of wisdom, wisdom that involved gratitude for Creation, limits, and the body and embodied practices, as well as affection for and service to one’s local place. Bilbro also discusses Berry’s iconic view of Creation and his influence on other pastors and thinkers.
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Guests on Volume 169
- ALEC RYRIE, author of The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It, on cultural values based on a villain
- FREDERICK BAUERSCHMIDT, author of No Lasting City: Essays on Theology, Politics, and Culture, on changes in ethics in postmodernity
- ANDREW KERN, author of Unless the Lord Builds the House: Shared Foundations for Christian Education, on helping students discover the glory of each created thing
- MICHAEL D. C. DROUT, author of The Tower and the Ruin: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Creation, on Tolkien’s creation of Middle-earth and its unique impact on readers
- ROSS MCCULLOUGH, author ofThe Body of This Death: Letters from the Last Archbishop of Lancaster, on portraying faith and life in the later 21st century in fiction
- DALE AHLQUIST, editor of I Also Had My Hour: An Alternative Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton, on G. K. Chesterton’s genius and humility