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
Becoming a serious and receptive reader
David Lyle Jeffrey offers a thoughtful reading of C. S. Lewis’s account of thoughtful reading
A very figurative and metaphorical God
David Lyle Jeffrey on the poetic character of the voice of God
Why theologians should be on their knees
John Webster on rapture and receptivity in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar
From enthusiasm to discernment
Hans Urs von Balthasar on how the assumption that taste is entirely subjective is a function of immaturity