How should we then die? Book excerptBy Ken MyersOctober 8, 2021Stanley Hauerwas asks how the fear of death shapes the practice of medicine
Longing for God’s beauty Book excerptBy Ken MyersOctober 1, 2021Dietrich von Hildebrand on the quasi-sacramental function of visible and audible beauty
Beauty and a hermeneutics of creation Book excerptBy Ken MyersOctober 1, 2021David Bentley Hart on the goodness of beauty
Mythopoeic power Book excerptBy Ken MyersSeptember 17, 2021Stratford Caldecott on Tolkien’s literary achievement
From myth to sacramentality Book excerptBy Ken MyersSeptember 17, 2021Craig Bernthal: Tolkien asserts that reading fairy stories is a way to ‘recover’ the world”
Loss of significance Book excerptBy Ken MyersSeptember 10, 2021Steve Talbott on how technology alienates us from the world
On the re-enchantment of education Book excerptBy Ken MyersSeptember 10, 2021Stratford Caldecott on teaching in light of cosmic harmony
Detached consumers of interesting facts Book excerptBy Ken MyersSeptember 4, 2021Richard Stivers on how statistical norms replaced moral norms
Conventional “charismatic” speech, in service of the Zeitgeist Book excerptBy Ken MyersSeptember 4, 2021Richard Stivers on how the rhetoric of democracy invites tyranny
All how, no why Book excerptBy Ken MyersJuly 30, 2021Langdon Winner summarizes a key theme in Jacques Ellul’s writing about technology
Not in tune with the world Article excerptBy Ken MyersJuly 30, 2021Michael Hanby on how the “technological paradigm” flattens our thinking
The dismissal of standards as cultural imperialism Book excerptBy Ken MyersJuly 17, 2021Rochelle Gurstein on the loss of “principled debate about the quality and character of our common world”