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.”
Against secular smugness
Ralph C. Wood on the theological threads in the work of P. D. James
The wide, wide resonance of local details
Novelist Larry Woiwode on the unbreakable bond between specificity and universality
Taking words into the soul
Eugene Peterson on reading as an art of chewing, savoring, and digesting
Reading with our whole might
Marilyn McEntyre on engaging texts receptively
How hymnody produced an important English poet
Christopher N. Phillips on William Cowper’s suffering and (artistic) triumphs
From cities humming with a restless crowd
In a much-sung hymn and a little-known poem, William Cowper seeks retirement from worldliness