Arts & Culture
Annie Dillard’s unrestrained hallelujah
The visionary writer showed us that paying attention could make us certain that the world is holy.
From shame to gift
Humans have a special talent for screwing things up. I think acknowledging this offers liberation.
The goosebumpy pleasure of Widow’s Bay
The Apple TV series knows the delights of small-town horror clichés. It also knows something about close communities and how they work.
Revisiting Everyday Apocalypse
“Art is integration,” says David Dark. “Empire is disintegration.”
Beauty and how to see it
Reading Van Gogh’s letters has helped me uncover a deeper, more textured theological understanding.
Something resembling God
Adam Hughes explores the far side of certainty and what happens when belief begins to dissolve.
What US veterans taught me about The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan joins Simone Weil in a long tradition of reading the poem as a condemnation of war in all times and places.
A memoir that cannot find the words
Journalist Lauren Markham finds herself searching for language adequate for grief on a planetary scale.
Wendell Berry’s vision of a sacred world
Experience, reading, and the daily rounds of farm work taught Wendell that scripture is correct: Every creature and every inch of earth is made and approved by God.