Sofa as church
David Thomson on the formative powers of television
Confident agnosticism
Lesslie Newbigin on not knowing everything
The truth sent from above
Josef Pieper on why philosophy needs theology
The missional mandate of truth
Joseph Ratzinger on the partnership of faith and reason in the coherence of love and truth
Sinning against the common good
Jacques Maritain on how human societies must account for the full nature of human personhood
The fountainhead from which perversions gush
Josef Pieper on how refusing to acknowledge the spiritual core of our true nature leads to a “roaming restlessness of the spirit”
Only domesticated religions are safe to be free
Stanley Hauerwas on why “freedom of religion” carries subtle temptations
The heaven of the materialists
George Parkin Grant on how sex drives out love
Skepticism and totalitarian drift
John Paul II on how a loss of confidence in the reality of truth accentuates the will to power
A liturgically ordered (and Christ-formed) cosmos
David L. Schindler on how the renewing of our minds requires the recognition of love in the order of Creation