Time Reborn by Alan Lightman
A pregnant moment in intellectual history occurs when H.G. Wells’ Time Traveller (“for so it will be convenient to speak of him”) gathers his friends around the drawing room fire to explain that...
View ArticleA Clash of Pentecosts — Robert Joustra
Rembrandt, Two Old Men Debating 1628. The Incident at Antioch was an Apostolic Age dispute between the apostles Paul and Peter which occurred in the city of Antioch around the middle of the first...
View ArticleBook Review: The Gap — David Barash
Rock paintings from the Neolithic era in the Tassili n’Ajjer mountains in what is now Algeria. Thousands of images made beginning as early as 8,000 B.C. depict cattle, crocodiles and humans. Mr. Barash...
View ArticleThe Poets’ Incarnation 1 – Fr. Edward T. Oakes S.J.
For this above all is the basis of Christianity: Christology is a truth about God, just as the Trinity is a truth about Jesus. Last Saturday it was with great sadness that we reblogged from First...
View ArticleThe Poets’ Incarnation 2 – Fr. Edward T. Oakes S.J.
The Birth of Christ, Federico Barocci, 1597 Last Saturday it was with great sadness that we reblogged from First Things the news of the passing and the short tribute to Fr. Edward T. Oakes. I’ve been...
View ArticleThe Poets’ Incarnation 3 – Fr. Edward T. Oakes S.J.
The Virgin of the Veil, Ambrogio Borgognone, 1500 Last Saturday it was with great sadness that we reblogged from First Things the news of the passing and the short tribute to Fr. Edward T. Oakes. I’ve...
View ArticleTime’s On Our Side — Matthew W. Maguire
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is widely considered to be a central figure of modern philosophy. He argued that human concepts and categories structure...
View ArticleNietzsches Nietzsches Everywhere — Patrick Connelly
Nihilism is the complete disregard for all things that cannot be scientifically proven or demonstrated. Nietzsche did not claim that nothing exists that cannot be proven, nor that those things should...
View ArticleBook Recommendation: C.S. Lewis A Grief Observed
Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the...
View ArticleBook Review by Barton Swaim: ‘Music at Midnight’ by John Drury
Herbert did achieve worldly honors — as orator at Cambridge, he once delighted the king himself with a speech — and he did then give them up. He took, it seems, his own counsel, given in chapter 29 of...
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