[T]the distinction we make today between inner realities (consciousness) and outer realities (the physical universe) is not final, nor is it an accurate basis for reconstructing… the pre-human past.

Ashton Arnoldy on modernity as real stage in human history

It is a chief responsibility of the humanities to remember and interpret the past so that we can understand the present.

Ryan McDermott on proposed faculty cuts at ACU [update]

[T]he decline of sickness funds and early community-rated plans transformed a system rooted in voluntarism and mutual aid…

Grant Martsolf on the transition from industrial sickness funds to insurance plans in the United States

How does the past bear on the present? Has “modernity” always been around?

Ryan McDermott’s interview with the Spiritually Incorrect Podcast

For Maximus, evil occurs when we lend reality to a false way of being in the world…

Joseph Reigle on Jordan Wood’s The Whole Mystery of Christ

It is possible to frame the entire theological enterprise as an attempt to answer the following question: How does the Creator relate to creation?

Joseph Reigle on Jordan Wood’s The Whole Mystery of Christ

It is a chief responsibility of the humanities to remember and interpret the past so that we can understand the present.

Ryan McDermott on proposed faculty cuts at ACU

For some, Ireland is the archetype of Christianity’s decline in the wake of modern secularization. But is there a resurgence of theological and philosophical fervor in this traditionally Catholic country?

An interview with Gaven Kerr

Through the guise of hypotheticals and future realities, authors of the genre can critique current conditions and disseminate their ideas to a broad, sometimes international, audience.

Andrew Latham and Erica Paley on Chinese science fiction

Official efforts to promote science fiction in support of national rejuvenation have the perverse effect of encouraging a genre that is shot through with powerful anti-totalitarian tropes.

Andrew Latham and Erica Paley on Chinese science fiction

In a time when technology has made it possible to change our very bodies in ways that would have been unimaginable to previous generations, are we less human than before?

An interview with Michael Hanby

In making computers to solve ethical dilemmas and robots to enter relationships, are we creating something in our own image? Is it possible to separate intelligence or emotion from the body?

An interview with Noreen Herzfeld

Everyday life—that boring and mundane, trivial and profane measure of our existence—assumed tremendous significance when modern artists like Vermeer gave depth perception to our daily doings.

Joshua Hren on ordinary time in art and the Gospels

What I'm interested in are those discourses [...] which seem to be interested in negotiating with Christianity, but actually want to overcome it on narrative grounds.

A podcast interview with Cyril O’Regan

Contentment requires that one appreciate the good things in life.... We should view reality with a loving, contemplative gaze, as if we were looking at the Rowan Tree.

Xavier Symons reviews the film Living as an antidote to modern malaise

If we read Virgil’s works closely, we can see how he anticipates a Christian view of creation in his approach to the pastoral…. His vision of pastoral poetry is more Christian than classical.

Mary Grace Mangano on Virgil’s Christian approach to creation

Early modern science emphasized an optical connection to the universe,' making its brilliance appear close enough to touch. Tragically, this optical achievement consigned the individual to reflect on an unbridgeable distance.

Michael Golec on the confluence of civilization and barbarism

Today, the very nature and purpose of the family snapshot has changed. What does it mean that the majority of our pictures of family have become dematerialized?

Arthur Aghajanian on family photographs and the transcendent

What the interiority of reflection reveals is that which is interior to everything that exists: their reality as God’s creation.

Ali Harfouch on Islamic theology and reflection in the modern age

The donation of portable Mass kits was a way for non-combatants to participate in the war effort in a way that is uniquely tied to religious material culture.

Sarah Luginbill on medieval and modern liturgical inscriptions