Divorcing the spirit of the age Book excerptBy Ken MyersMay 24, 2024Thomas C. Oden on overcoming the theological faddism of the late twentieth century
Seeking control, in white magic and The Green Book Book excerptBy Ken MyersMay 14, 2024Alan Jacobs on C. S. Lewis’s critique of the modern pursuit of god-like control
Education, reason, and the Good Book excerptBy Ken MyersMay 13, 2024Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson on C. S. Lewis’s argument about natural law
Life without limits? Article excerptBy Ken MyersMay 7, 2024Robert Westbook on Christopher Lasch’s critique of the modern rejection of limits
Infrastructures of addiction Article excerptBy Ken MyersMay 7, 2024Christopher Lasch on the subversive effects of the expectation of novelty
The past as presence, not souvenir Article excerptBy Ken MyersMay 7, 2024Historian Christopher Lasch on the importance of recognizing our dependence on the past
Materialism and the problem of mind Book excerptBy Ken MyersApril 26, 2024David Bentley Hart on the evasiveness implicit on all efforts to explain away human consciousness
Dreary atheist fundamentalism Book excerptBy Ken MyersApril 26, 2024David Bentley Hart defends the naturalness of religious belief against the assertions of the Naturalists
Bemused by joy Article excerptBy Ken MyersApril 20, 2024Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., on G. K. Chesterton’s awareness of the reality of both evil and joy
God also was a Cave-man Book excerptBy Ken MyersApril 20, 2024G. K. Chesterton on the convergence of omnipotence and impotence in Bethlehem
Accounting for “the unfathomable sadness of pagan poetry” Book excerptBy Ken MyersApril 19, 2024Biographer Ian Ker on Chesterton’s rejection of the idea of the evolution of religions
The peril of positivism Book excerptBy Ken MyersApril 15, 2024Owen Barfield on a popular denial of the possibility of meaning