The problem of authority is the problem of unbelief
John Patrick Diggins on Max Weber’s struggle to imagine social order without authority
Patients needing patience
Gilbert Meilaender on the quest for greater longevity
How should we then die?
Stanley Hauerwas asks how the fear of death shapes the practice of medicine
Longing for God’s beauty
Dietrich von Hildebrand on the quasi-sacramental function of visible and audible beauty
Beauty and a hermeneutics of creation
David Bentley Hart on the goodness of beauty
Mythopoeic power
Stratford Caldecott on Tolkien’s literary achievement
From myth to sacramentality
Craig Bernthal: Tolkien asserts that reading fairy stories is a way to ‘recover’ the world”
Loss of significance
Steve Talbott on how technology alienates us from the world
On the re-enchantment of education
Stratford Caldecott on teaching in light of cosmic harmony
Detached consumers of interesting facts
Richard Stivers on how statistical norms replaced moral norms