Teaching for wonderfulness
Stratford Caldecott on why education is about how we become more human, and therefore more free
Maintaining a connected grasp of things
Ian Ker summarizes the central concern of John Henry Newman’s educational philosophy as developed in The Idea of a University
Justice and truth
Joseph Ratzinger: “Plato’s philosophy is utterly misconceived when he is presented as an individualistic, dualistic thinker who negates what is earthly and advocates a flight into the beyond.”
Christian scholars and the secularized academy
Mark Noll on why Christian intellectual vitality requires a vision for the universality of Christian truth
Freedom from the nature of things?
Leon Kass on the pressure exerted by the authority of science to embrace reductionistic materialism
A frail, fedora-wearing Prometheus
Roger Shattuck on the moral confusion of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Conscience seared with a red-hot iron
Oliver O'Donovan on the convicting role of a good conscience
Parents: Authoritative or winsome?
David Setran on contrasts in parental roles between the American colonial period and the nineteenth century
Consecrating the world
Paul Evdokimov on the cosmic effects of the Incarnation
Greatness ≠ goodness
Roger Shattuck on the dangers of wanting to know more than we should