Recognizing the Puritan flavor of “America”
George McKenna on the originally theocentric vision for the American vocation
Christmas music from Luther to Bach
Tova Leigh-Choate on the roots of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Angelic voices: saying or singing?
Pope Benedict XVI on the intrinsically musical character of angelic utterance
“You love the man at once”
Marianne Wright on the generosity and geniality of George MacDonald
Perceiving truths that dazzle gradually
Rolland Hein on lessons from George MacDonald about the imagination as a spiritual faculty
We wonder as they wander
Daniel Gabelman on the spiritual geography of George MacDonald’s fairyland
Treating Truth with sovereign respect
Henri de Lubac on the urgency of intellectual activity
What is lost with labor-saving devices
Romano Guardini on what is lost when cultural pursuits eclipse natural order
Faith that is more than “chemically pure”
Romano Guardini on sustaining a Christian understanding of all of Creation
The confident optimism in true Christian asceticism
Philosopher Étienne Gilson on the essential goodness of Creation