Words as fulcrums
Wendell Berry on the mediating responsibilities of poets
The rise of the “spiritual opera”
Richard Viladesau on the invention of the Passion oratorio
Bach’s Passions in context
Calvin Stapert on the evolution of an ancient musical-liturgical tradition
The Passion and compassion
Richard Viladesau on art, meditation, and the affections
The novelty of “science” and “religion”
Peter Harrison on the contingency of the boundaries that divide our lives
Shrinking sources of causality
David Bentley Hart on the loss of a recognition of inherent meaning in the natural world
Freed from the burden of choice
Writing in the mid-1990s, Alan Ehrenhalt reflects on the relationship between authority and community
What authorizes authority?
Victor Lee Austin: “All authority comes from God and no thing, no being, no realm is outside his dominion.”
The wide, wide resonance of local details
Novelist Larry Woiwode on the unbreakable bond between specificity and universality
Taking words into the soul
Eugene Peterson on reading as an art of chewing, savoring, and digesting