Music that demands an existential commitment
Jaroslav Pelikan on the radical differences between Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Passions
The dance of law and freedom
Calvin Stapert on the experience of joyous order in Bach’s music
The infinity of beauty in Bach
David Bentley Hart on why Johann Sebastian Bach is the greatest of Christian theologians
Why not hatcheries?
Ethicist Paul Ramsey (1913–1988) challenges “the unchecked employment of powers the biological revolution places in human hands.”
The logic of “making” babies
Gilbert Meilaender on the temptation to instrumentalize our bodies
Divine demonstration
Robert Louis Wilken on the folly of arguing for God’s existence apart from the reality of Christ
Ingmar Bergman and God
Gene D. Phillips, S.J. on the shape of Ingmar Bergman’s religious pondering
Postmodern manners and morals
Mary P. Nichols on the films of Whit Stillman as comedies of manners
The de(con)struction of the humanities (and of truth)
Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb on the skeptical tendencies of the postmodern academy
Blest be the ties of language that bind us
Marion Montgomery on the precious gift of words