Discernment of personal mission
Thomas C. Oden on how he came to understand his vocation within a slow growth toward orthodoxy
Divorcing the spirit of the age
Thomas C. Oden on overcoming the theological faddism of the late twentieth century
Seeking control, in white magic and The Green Book
Alan Jacobs on C. S. Lewis’s critique of the modern pursuit of god-like control
Education, reason, and the Good
Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson on C. S. Lewis’s argument about natural law
Materialism and the problem of mind
David Bentley Hart on the evasiveness implicit on all efforts to explain away human consciousness
Dreary atheist fundamentalism
David Bentley Hart defends the naturalness of religious belief against the assertions of the Naturalists
Accounting for “the unfathomable sadness of pagan poetry”
Biographer Ian Ker on Chesterton’s rejection of the idea of the evolution of religions
The peril of positivism
Owen Barfield on a popular denial of the possibility of meaning
Mary: Abraham of the New Covenant
Gil Bailie explains how the Virgin Mary brings the Yes given to God by Abraham to its supreme expression
Music that demands an existential commitment
Jaroslav Pelikan on the radical differences between Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Passions