Arts & Culture
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.
A 21st-century Metaphysical poet
D. S. Martin’s new collection brilliantly exploits his bond with the poems of John Donne.
An Odyssey without paganism
In Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation, the gods are almost entirely absent—and the hero is motivated by something like Christian ethics.
Angels and fascists in 1939 London
Francis Spufford’s time-traveling fantasy asks what we’d sacrifice to rewrite the past.