How successful are the liberal arts in teaching students how to be happy?

An interview with Tal Ben-Shahar

Barfield’s diagnosis of a deeper alienation from language induces a correspondingly more dramatic remedy.

Jeffrey Hipolito puts two great theorists of human history into conversation

What does Silicon Valley have to do with Jerusalem?

An interview with Derek Shuurman

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.

The genealogical description insists on erasing hundreds of years of Christian life. The writer awkwardly alludes to Christianity but cannot imagine that it has any real importance except as a machine for appropriating pagan practices.

Terence Sweeney critiques pop-genealogies of Halloween

As my colleague Pui-Him Ip and I were planning the Theological Genealogies of Modernity conference, which took place in 2021, we wanted to shed light on certain basic issues regarding genealogies of modernity.

Darren Sarisky on his recent work for Modern Theology

There are few better introductions to this deeply creative theological mind.

Alex Irving’s response to Darren Sarisky’s recent article in Modern Theology

The story of rupture is often told by innovative women.

Christine Helmer and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft on “genderealogy”

Where are the women in genealogy?

Caroline Wills responds to a recent Modern Theology article by Christine Helmer and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft

In the coming months, Genealogies of Modernity will be publishing a series of response pieces to articles from Theological Genealogies of Modernity, a special issue of Modern Theology edited by Darren Sarisky, Pui-Him Ip, and Austin Stevenson.

AI gives us information. It furnishes facts. It prompts us with news headlines. But could AI also answer our religious questions?

An interview with Shanen Boettcher

The Hedgehog Review interviews Ryan McDermott

[Poetry is] the closest thing—alongside music and dance and visual art—to a transhistorical technology of human expression and contemplation.

Anthony Shoplik interviews Philip Metres

Can't poetry just be beautiful and sufficient in itself, a refuge?

Anthony Shoplik interviews Philip Metres

How do we adopt tradition without being duped by misinterpretation?

An interview with Anne Carpenter

Carlos Bulosan’s humanist vision of freedom was articulated through his deep attention to the material conditions of Filipino life.

Colton Bernasol’s retrieval of a giant of American letters

[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