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Mar 1, 2012 Uncategorized Legacies

Something Beautiful for God: The Gift of Jean Vanier

Vanier and the L’Arche communities exemplify the “journey inward” funding the “journey outward.”

Mar 1, 2012 Uncategorized Legacies

The Dignity and Priority of Labour

Studying John Paul II’s Laborem Exercens as not the “last word,” but the “first word” on economics, human rights, and justice.

Mar 1, 2012 Uncategorized Legacies

Jacques Ellul and Technology’s Trade-off

When did “hard-working, successful, creative” become our virtues of choice?

Feb 29, 2012 Uncategorized

Mobs: None of us is as bad as all of us

We will need significant historical, ethical, moral, and philosophical sophistication to maintain critical tensions between individuals and the crowd.

Feb 27, 2012 Uncategorized

“Of Gods and Men”

Why this standard-setting work of sacred cinema will never be a hit with the Christian community—and why this is a tragedy.

Feb 24, 2012 Uncategorized

The Monsters Among Us

Examining our history—and ourselves—through our unicorns, sea serpents, witches, aliens, and zombies.

Feb 22, 2012 Uncategorized

Cultivating Her Creative Calling

Beth Giles’s business is an example of how a Christian can engage in the market economy with a creative vision.

Feb 20, 2012 Uncategorized

A Regimen of Aimless Strolling

Billy Collins sashays into Big Ideas with apparent ease, poem after poem—death, love, the self, the death of love, love of the self. Beginning with the impossible or the mundane he transforms the conversation, like a witty party guest, into larger questions: Who am I? Why am I here?

Feb 17, 2012 Uncategorized