Against secular smugness
Ralph C. Wood on the theological threads in the work of P. D. James
The wide, wide resonance of local details
Novelist Larry Woiwode on the unbreakable bond between specificity and universality
How hymnody produced an important English poet
Christopher N. Phillips on William Cowper’s suffering and (artistic) triumphs
From cities humming with a restless crowd
In a much-sung hymn and a little-known poem, William Cowper seeks retirement from worldliness
Why theologians should be on their knees
John Webster on rapture and receptivity in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar
The eclipsing of happiness
Reinhard Hütter on the Christian recognition that happiness is only intelligible in light of the end for which we were created
The scantily clad public square
Reinhard Hütter on the necessity of the virtue of religion
Merciless moralism bereft of moral reasons
Dallas Willard explores how moral passions on campuses — and elsewhere — are now immune to rational examination or critique
Why lectures or scolding won’t change behavior
Dru Johnson on healing the scars of community-ritualized violence and uncertainty
Seeing things as they are
F. A. Lea on the imaginative vision of G. K. Chesterton