Mary: Abraham of the New Covenant Book excerptBy Ken MyersMarch 25, 2024Gil Bailie explains how the Virgin Mary brings the Yes given to God by Abraham to its supreme expression
Music that demands an existential commitment Book excerptBy Ken MyersMarch 22, 2024Jaroslav Pelikan on the radical differences between Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Passions
The dance of law and freedom Book excerptBy Ken MyersMarch 22, 2024Calvin Stapert on the experience of joyous order in Bach’s music
The infinity of beauty in Bach Book excerptBy Ken MyersMarch 22, 2024David Bentley Hart on why Johann Sebastian Bach is the greatest of Christian theologians
Why not hatcheries? Book excerptBy Ken MyersMarch 1, 2024Ethicist Paul Ramsey (1913–1988) challenges “the unchecked employment of powers the biological revolution places in human hands.”
The logic of “making” babies Book excerptBy Ken MyersMarch 1, 2024Gilbert Meilaender on the temptation to instrumentalize our bodies
On babies and words UncategorizedBy Ken MyersMarch 1, 2024Leon Kass on the re-configuring of human origins
Divine demonstration Book excerptBy Ken MyersFebruary 17, 2024Robert Louis Wilken on the folly of arguing for God’s existence apart from the reality of Christ
Philosophy and loving the Logos UncategorizedBy Ken MyersFebruary 17, 2024Robert Louis Wilken on early Christians and the pursuit of a virtuous life
Ingmar Bergman and God Book excerpt, UncategorizedBy Ken MyersJanuary 27, 2024Gene D. Phillips, S.J. on the shape of Ingmar Bergman’s religious pondering
Postmodern manners and morals Book excerptBy Ken MyersJanuary 27, 2024Mary P. Nichols on the films of Whit Stillman as comedies of manners
The de(con)struction of the humanities (and of truth) Book excerptBy Ken MyersJanuary 19, 2024Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb on the skeptical tendencies of the postmodern academy