Alienation and autoamputation: the price of power
Nicholas Carr on the numbing effect of technology
In defense of peace and justice
Arthur F. Holmes summarizes the evolution of the just war tradition
Why the Department of War must be a Department of Peace
Daniel M. Bell, Jr. summarizes Augustine’s understanding of justice in warfare
War and loving our enemy-neighbor
Oliver O’Donovan on evaluating the conduct of war in light of the evangelical command of love
Celebrating Christmas with Bach (through Epiphany)
Ken Myers offers a detailed introduction to J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a work composed to be sung on six occasions from Dec. 25th to Jan. 6th
Anticipation and festivity
Tova Leigh-Choate on the earliest forms of musical celebration during Advent and Christmas
In tune with the muses of Zion
Ken Myers on the Christmas music of Michael Praetorius
God also was a Cave-man
G. K. Chesterton on the convergence of omnipotence and impotence in Bethlehem
Christmas music from Luther to Bach
Tova Leigh-Choate on the roots of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
How communities remember who they are
Oliver O’Donovan on the necessity of tradition in sustaining communal identity