It takes a character (and a village)
Herbert McCabe, O.P. on the Aristotelian, Thomistic, and MacIntyrean account of the moral life
Awakening before what is great
Romano Guardini on the proper posture of one in the presence of greatness
An ancient liturgical form
Calvin Stapert on the long history of recounting Christ’s sufferings musically
Bach’s meditative intensity
Victor Lederer on the intimate spirituality in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
The innocent Lamb’s suffering
Jaroslav Pelikan on the theology of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
The idiom for the revelation of mystery
Dana Gioia on the foundational place of poetry in Christian faith
Breaking the frozen sea
Dana Gioia on how poetry enchants
Learning from experience
Flannery O’Connor on belief and experience
Hillbilly Augustinian
Ralph Wood on Flannery O'Connor’s refusal to adapt her fiction to the national temper
The grotesque and the transcendent
Christina Bieber Lake on why Flannery O’Connor’s readers have to work