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
Making melody to the Lord with all your heart
Christopher Page on the power of music to evoke ritual (and community)
Economics is about right relationships
John C. Médaille. on the situatedness of economics in human life
Modern science and its great divorces
Adam Briggle traces the advent of philosophical and theological assumptions that pronounced the soullessness of Creation
Becoming a serious and receptive reader
David Lyle Jeffrey offers a thoughtful reading of C. S. Lewis’s account of thoughtful reading
Reading with our whole might
Marilyn McEntyre on engaging texts receptively
Taking words into the soul
Eugene Peterson on reading as an art of chewing, savoring, and digesting
Slower, longer, smarter
A veteran journalist laments “the sea change in the culture of literacy” and the decline of good book criticism