How hymnody produced an important English poet
Christopher N. Phillips on William Cowper’s suffering and (artistic) triumphs
Becoming a serious and receptive reader
David Lyle Jeffrey offers a thoughtful reading of C. S. Lewis’s account of thoughtful reading
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
First-fruits of the age to come
Lesslie Newbigin on God’s use of material means to convey redemptive transformation
Reasoning about values
Revisiting a 1974 text that examined the mutual animosities of the 1960s
Liberalism’s totalitarian logic
Antonio López on the logic of liberalism’s totalitarian tendencies