“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
The (super)natural theology of fairy-tales
Alison Milbank describes Chesterton’s belief that story-telling is an affirmation of transcendent meaning
The fatal polytheism of late liberalism
Oliver O’Donovan on the failure that leads to social collapse, marked by conflict, suspicion, and violence
Chameleon karma: the fate of plasticity
Cultural historian Jeffrey L. Meikle on how the ubiquity of plastic affected the moral imagination of 20th-century Americans