You're not taken to some other realm. You're firmly on the ground trying to perceive the eternal and transcendent in the immanent and present. That for me is an authentic kind of presence.

Arthur Aghajanian and Taylor Worley in conversation

The complexities of premodern interfaith relations are explored in all their surprisingly human dimensions, avoiding the tragic obscuring of this history that has occurred as the result of modern traumas.

Philip Dorroll reviews Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East

If tradition is a socially embodied argument extended through time, then Willa Cather and Simone Weil’s quarrel with the boosters of the Gothic exemplifies faithfulness to the traditions of Christian sacred architecture.

Jonathan McGregor on tradition versus traditionalism

Here are some of our favorite books from 2022. Perhaps some of these books will end up source texts for future genealogists. So, if you are making reading resolutions for 2023, we have you covered!

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in December on our modern life.

The death, decay, and melancholy found in the ruins of our fallen world wither against the evergreen flower of our suffering God.

Michael McCarthy on the deepening relevance of Brideshead Revisited

Reading Smith’s “How to Inhabit Time” is itself a practice of spiritual timekeeping, granting the attentive reader a space and time in which to give herself over to reflection.

Caroline Arnold on living in hope

A type of secular self-enclosure partaking in characteristics both pagan and Christian, trollish and monkish, stoic and saintly: a synthesis that registers as curiously incomplete.

Katy Carl on genealogies of selfhood

If time is only contingencies, then Christians will lose their way in time. But if time is a place in which the eternal emerges, then there is a path for Christian thinking within a liturgical life.

Terence Sweeney resists the modern flattening of time

Ultimately, the council majority was victorious: anti-Modernist doctrinal documents failed to achieve a ‘controlling function’ at the Council.

Shaun Blanchard on leaving anti-modernism behind

Understanding how anti-Modernism was evoked and how anti-Modernist critiques were rebutted sheds light on Vatican II as a fundamental shift in the relationship between Catholicism and modernity.

Shaun Blanchard on Modernism and Vatican II

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in November on our modern life.

While the ancients understood justice as one virtue among many, we often view justice as the sole, super-virtue… thereby distorting justice itself and re-ordering it into something very different.

Br. Nicodemus Thomas on reuniting the cardinal virtues

Human history is human above all other things, and human beings are not merely predictable. And that is why we should be cautious in our trend-spotting and forecasting.

Duncan Reyburn on Chesterton and the wobbliness of time

There is a genealogical case to be made that the solidity of the modern scientific world picture may have been unwittingly grounded upon a theistic metaphysic.

JD Lyonhart on Henry More and the origins of modern space

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in October on our modern life.

Muffled beneath the sounds of contemporary American life, the discerning reader will hear the reverberations of a question posed to Jesus: ‘And who is my neighbor?’

Charles Ducey on Tess Gunty's The Rabbit Hutch

Petrarch was a founder of an alternative modernity, which emphasizes the compatibility between the ancients and medievals by adhering to the traditional prioritizing of the contemplative over the active.

Michael Krom on spiritual ascents

Modern American viewers seem to suffer from the same bias as The Gilded Age characters themselves: if it isn’t the English way, it isn’t anything at all.

Jacob Martin on Julian Fellows’s newest television series