Freedom as conformity to reality
W. Bradford Littlejohn summarizes the definitions of liberty offered by Richard Bauckham and Oliver O’Donovan
Looking for solutions in all the wrong places
Christopher A. Hall on how Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016) discovered the wisdom of the ancient Church
Discernment of personal mission
Thomas C. Oden on how he came to understand his vocation within a slow growth toward orthodoxy
Divorcing the spirit of the age
Thomas C. Oden on overcoming the theological faddism of the late twentieth century
Seeking control, in white magic and The Green Book
Alan Jacobs on C. S. Lewis’s critique of the modern pursuit of god-like control
Education, reason, and the Good
Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson on C. S. Lewis’s argument about natural law
Life without limits?
Robert Westbook on Christopher Lasch’s critique of the modern rejection of limits
Infrastructures of addiction
Christopher Lasch on the subversive effects of the expectation of novelty
The past as presence, not souvenir
Historian Christopher Lasch on the importance of recognizing our dependence on the past
Materialism and the problem of mind
David Bentley Hart on the evasiveness implicit on all efforts to explain away human consciousness