December 2018

For expatriate poet A.E. Stallings, selfhood is always relational. It’s not what we see that makes us who we are, but rather what sees us

Edmund White knew that writers were most compelling when exploring a subject they were of two minds about: when they could see it from one angle, then another.

The new Coen Brothers western refreshes and deepens the genre, puncturing cheap grace with a meditation on death

Instead of hyperventilating about the decline of Western religious and political institutions, conservatives ought to help build them back up

Reeking of exhaust and incinerators, the Bronx was full of pizzerias, German and Jewish delis, and Irish bars—in other words, it was home

Contrary to the paranoia encouraged by the Trump administration, migrants are people of deep faith, guilty only of looking for a home.

The Barth-Przywara debate on human nature went on for decades, even under the shadow of war and genocide; surprisingly, it ended in a hopeful place

Thomas Merton and William Blake were unorthodox religious visionaries, joined by a shared predilection for the paradoxes at the heart of Christianity