Insights into reality itself
Malcolm Guite on the philosophical concerns underlying Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The story of the demotion of stories
Malcolm Guite on the Enlightenment’s rash dismissal of poetic knowledge
Visionary education
Josef Pieper on the mistake of confusing education with mere training
Fuller and truer ways of being
Zena Hitz on some of the blessings of the love of learning
Words of truth, words of Life
Hans Urs von Balthasar on the primitive (but now largely lost) unity of theology and sanctity
On light and visibility
Hans-Georg Gadamer on the relationship between light, beauty, and truth
The consoling hum of technological society
Jacques Ellul on the danger of confusing “technology” with “machines”
Convivial is beautiful
Ivan Illich on “the opposite of industrial productivity”
What happens when the Machine stops?
David E. Nye provides a context for evaluating the prospect of life in the Metaverse
America (not the Church) as the New Creation
David E. Nye on one of the founding myths of America