Under the guidance of Dr. Jason M. Baxter, the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine College (Atchison, Kansas) promotes an integrated vision of beauty, studying beauty in all of its possible manifestations: in the visual arts, in music, poetry, the natural world, and within human the human soul. Each year the Center for Beauty and Culture offers a select number of “Angelico Fellowships” to incoming freshmen at Benedictine College. Named after the priest-painter, Blessed Fra Angelico, Angelico Fellows believe in the holiness of beauty and the beauty of holiness. 

The Center for Beauty and Culture has collaborated with Paul Kingsnorth, Jonathan Pageau, Sir James MacMillan, as well as with Glenn Arbery. Future collaborations will include D.C. Schindler.


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The unmasking of self-fictions

The unmasking of self-fictions

June 18, 2026
Glenn Arbery describes what the genre of tragedy reveals about human experience and how it does this work of revelation. (63 minutes)
“The secret at the heart of poetry”

“The secret at the heart of poetry”

June 18, 2026
Glenn Arbery explores how lyric poetry works to reveal essential insights into human and transcendent experience. (47 minutes)