Oct 30, 2015
The opening lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems. Following the death of his little sister and the publication of his New...
Oct 3, 2015
We've all been moved by something beautiful, be it the majestic glory of a snow-capped mountain or the homey chords of a country song. And most of us have been told that beauty can point us to God. But this often clashes with how we’re used to approaching God, where we’ve taught ourselves that beyond our daily...
Sep 5, 2015
We see strangers more often than friends, sit in gridlock more often than in conversation, and hunger for a deeper community we have never seen. Like the character Christian in Pilgrim's Progress, we know isolation far better than we know communion. Yet communion was designed to shape us as individuals and...
Mar 28, 2015
The spellbinding Malcolm Guite came to us all the way from Cambridge University, where he is a priest, rock band musician, jazz poet, and teacher. He also smokes pipes we're pretty sure are imported from Hobbiton. This Brit took us on an energetic ride through Shakespeare's sonnets, his own poetry, and John's...