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Latest wisdom from Sound Thinking
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E. L. Mascall on the epiphanic character of Creation - The chaotic sterility of mere outrage
Byung-Chul Han on the instability and lifelessness of digital outrage - Not-so-light comedy
Thomas Hibbs on the casual nihilism in Woody Allen’s films - Economics rightly understood
Herman E. Daly on how modern economics has little to do with oikonomia - Love isn’t a technique
Christian Smith on how we become more fully human when we enhance the personhood of other
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A recent Conversation
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.
The 18 most recent Conversations and Features we’ve released are described here.
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Our most recent Journal
Guests on Volume 168
- BRIAN BROCK, author of Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, on science as a human endeavor
- FR. LUKE BELL, author of author of Truth in Person, on the relational nature of knowing truth
- PETER HARRISON, author of Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, on science as a human endeavor
- KATHERINE CALLOWAY, contributor to Art Seeking Understanding, on Francis Bacon, George Herbert, and poetic knowledge
- BRENT STRAWN, contributor to Art Seeking Understanding, on poetry as Divine discourse in the Old Testament
- PETROC WILLEY, author of Light from Alexandria: Recovering a Vision for Christian Paideia for Education & Formation, on spiritual formation in the early Alexandrine church