The novelty of “science” and “religion”
Peter Harrison on the contingency of the boundaries that divide our lives
Shrinking sources of causality
David Bentley Hart on the loss of a recognition of inherent meaning in the natural world
Freed from the burden of choice
Writing in the mid-1990s, Alan Ehrenhalt reflects on the relationship between authority and community
What authorizes authority?
Victor Lee Austin: “All authority comes from God and no thing, no being, no realm is outside his dominion.”
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
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