Watching, waiting, persevering
Romano Guardini on the necessarily eschatological character of Christian living
The destructive perils of speech without a real partner
Josef Pieper and Marc Barnes on how chatbots pervert the nature of conversation
Paradoxes of “nature” and “culture”
Robert Spaemann, on the destructive consequences of a merely naturalistic understanding of nature
Machines and misanthropy
Nicholas Carr on how technology has transformed our understanding of progress (and people)
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
War and loving our enemy-neighbor
Oliver O’Donovan on evaluating the conduct of war in light of the evangelical command of love
Anticipation and festivity
Tova Leigh-Choate on the earliest forms of musical celebration during Advent and Christmas
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