[Bulosan] locates the “who” of America on its margins, expanding the nation’s definition of itself to include those who have been excised from its democratic institutions and practices.

Colton Bernasol’s retrieval of a giant of American letters

How would you rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral? Are we justified in putting humans at the center of history?

An interview with Anne Carpenter

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 September on our modern life.

His experience was that poetry—Romantic poetry in particular—had the potential to expand perception by rousing the imagination in a way that forged a new unity of self and world.

Ashton Arnoldy on modernity as real stage in human history

[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