Travelogue By John Bauerschmidt This summer, through the generosity of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, I was able to take a long-planned sabbatical. It had been nine years since my last leave from the diocese: at t... Read More...
A Relatable Rendition of Religious Life Shelterbelts By Jonathan Dyck Conundrum Press, pp. 224, $20 Review by Cole Hartin Comics have long been the playground for imaginative exploration in science fiction and superhero escapades. And fun... Read More...
Coleridge: Catholic Jon Fosse’s Nobel, Bill Watterson’s Mysteries, and Sufjan Stevens’s Faith Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Art History In Washington, D.C., the Catholic Art Institute will host a Christmas tour of the National Gallery on Dec... Read More...
Coleridge: Christina Rossetti’s Anglo-Catholicism, Chichester’s new workshop for liturgical art, and Cormac McCarthy’s contemptus mundi Coleridge is a monthly digest of significant developments in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Music In “Spiritual Renewal and Modern Choral Music,” Michael De Sapio praises the work of American composer ... Read More...
The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching By Tyler Been In March of 1933 Karl Barth delivered a lecture, “The First Commandment as Theological Axiom” (cited parenthetically hereafter). This lecture is fascinating for several of reasons. First, it i... Read More...
Keeping Company with God By Christopher Yoder This is a brief note to commend to you a book that I recently encountered for the first time: Prayer: Living with God by Simon Tugwell, O.P. This summer, the book caught my attention ... Read More...
Coleridge: Rowan Williams on the Bible and Poetry; Taylor Swift and Catharism; the Lives of Virgil and Andrei Rublev Coleridge is a monthly digest of significant developments in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Art Andrey Rublev: The Artist and His World, a biography by Robin Milner-Gulland of “the greatest painter of ... Read More...
The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen The Death and Life of Speculative Theology A Lonergan Idea By Ryan Hemmer Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023. Pp. 184. $95 Review by Eugene R. Schlesinger In our context of urgency and uproar, fe... Read More...