Making Christian Prophets Within Liberalism
Alan Jacobs on why true reform starts with Benedict Option-style localism
Posts tagged “Dante”
Traitors In Their Midst
Catholic activist and writer Austin Ruse wakes up to the true nature of the abuse scandal
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Got That Way
His problem is not the persistence of racism, but with the inability of atheism to offer hope
Thinking With Alan Jacobs
How does morality and the will affect our ability to think clearly?
Belshazzar Feasting Inside The Beltway
Eat drink, and be merry in your wrathfulness, for tomorrow the church will die
Visigoths At Civilization’s Gates
Subverting the Dictatorship of Relativism
Ancient China For Modern Conservatives
What the Benedict Option can learn from pre-Christian Eastern sages
A Boy’s Sweet Life In Italy
Italy and the city of Siena work their charms on a 13-year-old American boy
Bob Dylan On The Road To Damascus
On epiphanies, and rooting new creation in old tradition
Ithaca And All Our Odysseys
Daniel Mendelsohn journeys with his elderly father through Homer’s Odyssey
How Dante: The Epilogue
The final chapter that I would have written
Those Stung By Wasps
Republicans and conservatives had better draw a red line against Trumpism in the sand of their consciences
Eyes Wide Open, Monastery Walls Around The Heart
As Trump and his enemies clash, Benedict Option Christians must find ways to avoid succumbing to wrathfulness
Knots And Reparations
What do we mean when we talk about justice in history?
Book News
The Benedict Option galleys have shipped. And How Dante is coming to paperback
The Story Of Your Life
On turning a contamination story into a redemption story
On Time: ‘Arrival’
Is language the key to experiencing eternity? The sci-fi movie poses a philosophical challenge
Traitors In Their Midst
Catholic activist and writer Austin Ruse wakes up to the true nature of the abuse scandal
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Got That Way
His problem is not the persistence of racism, but with the inability of atheism to offer hope
Thinking With Alan Jacobs
How does morality and the will affect our ability to think clearly?
Belshazzar Feasting Inside The Beltway
Eat drink, and be merry in your wrathfulness, for tomorrow the church will die
Visigoths At Civilization’s Gates
Subverting the Dictatorship of Relativism
Ancient China For Modern Conservatives
What the Benedict Option can learn from pre-Christian Eastern sages
A Boy’s Sweet Life In Italy
Italy and the city of Siena work their charms on a 13-year-old American boy
Bob Dylan On The Road To Damascus
On epiphanies, and rooting new creation in old tradition
Ithaca And All Our Odysseys
Daniel Mendelsohn journeys with his elderly father through Homer’s Odyssey
How Dante: The Epilogue
The final chapter that I would have written
Those Stung By Wasps
Republicans and conservatives had better draw a red line against Trumpism in the sand of their consciences
Eyes Wide Open, Monastery Walls Around The Heart
As Trump and his enemies clash, Benedict Option Christians must find ways to avoid succumbing to wrathfulness
Knots And Reparations
What do we mean when we talk about justice in history?
Book News
The Benedict Option galleys have shipped. And How Dante is coming to paperback
The Story Of Your Life
On turning a contamination story into a redemption story
On Time: ‘Arrival’
Is language the key to experiencing eternity? The sci-fi movie poses a philosophical challenge