If you really want to understand the harrowing, vulnerable journey of Lent, picture the plight of the migrant.
James K. A. Smith
James K. A. Smith is a professor of philosophy at Calvin University and author of On the Road With Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts. His new book, Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark: Mysticism, Art, and the Path of Unknowing, will be published in March by Yale University Press.
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What to expect from an Augustinian pope
I listened to Pope Leo’s first messages with Augustinian ears. In his first words from the balcony, and then in his homily at his first Mass, I heard abiding themes from the Doctor of Grace.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Charles Taylor on how poetry expresses our deepest yearnings
In ‘Cosmic Connections,’ Charles Taylor focuses on how art, and poetry in particular, both expresses and responds to the unique human experience of “being modern.”
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Review: Garth Greenwell’s mystical novel ‘Small Rain’ teaches the art of living from a hospital bed
Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain is a mystical novel, a story in which illness becomes an occasion for a new attention to one’s life and loves.
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As Christians, how are we called to deal with loss?
I am still fascinated and humbled at the way people know what to do in the face of loss.
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The moral vision of Iris Murdoch
Rather than framing moral philosophy as just another form of epistemology (how can we know what to do?), Iris Murdoch was asking a more classical question: “How can we make ourselves morally better?” she asks. “These are the questions the philosopher should try to answer.”