Sound Thinking

Calvin Stapert on the long history of recounting Christ’s sufferings musically

Victor Lederer on the intimate spirituality in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

Jaroslav Pelikan on the theology of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

Dana Gioia on the foundational place of poetry in Christian faith

Dana Gioia on how poetry enchants

Flannery O’Connor on belief and experience

Ralph Wood on Flannery O’Connor’s refusal to adapt her fiction to the national temper

Christina Bieber Lake on why Flannery O’Connor’s readers have to work

Drusilla Scott on Michael Polanyi’s insistence that the “community of science” required authority

Esther Lightcap Meek on Michael Polanyi’s account of scientific discovery