A myth which is also a fact
Holly Ordway on the existentially resonant power of myth
Learning to see the world aright
Norman Wirzba on cultivating a Christocentric vision of Creation
Place and imagination
Matthew Stewart on Wallace Stegner’s moral laboratories
Introducing William Desmond
Steven Knepper offers a brief introduction to an important contemporary philosopher
Once there was no “secular”
Carlos Eire on the metaphysical assumptions championed in the sixteenth century
Our suffering, and Christ’s
Joel James Shuman and Keith Meador: “The absence of deliverance from sickness or suffering is neither a sign that God has withdrawn favor nor an occasion to abandon hope.”
Promethean medicine?
Stanley Hauerwas on medicine and limits
Suffering and the vocation of medicine
Stanley Hauerwas on why the elimination of suffering is an inadequate (and unrealistic) goal for medicine
Science, the only reliable leader (but to where?)
Stephen Gaukroger on the replacement of political, social, and cultural goals with scientific, technological, and economic ones
Human dignity, cosmic hierarchies
Political scientist Robert Kraynak on how Christianity opposes worldly hierarchies with hierarchies of its own