The Vision Glorious
This essay examines some of the principles that animated the leaders of the Oxford Movement and considers their relevance for contemporary opportunities and concerns.
A Christian manifesto on home-buying
Buying a house appeals to basic human desires of independence, order, tranquility, family, status, and acceptance.
Holy Spirit: Remembrancer
Refresh my memory, / With words of Moses and Jesus, / To help me follow your ways / And imagine your future.
Plato has gone before us
In The Vision of the Soul, James Matthew Wilson asserts that the Western tradition is dominated by one name: Plato.
Window into a larger world
After a year of worship, I embraced the Nicene Creed as a beautiful expression of truths at the heart of the gospel.
Climbing the ladder of God’s delight
My first encounter with natural delight changed my life. I ended up leaving my parish ministry in North Carolina to move to the United Kingdom. Since then, I’ve gone out into wildernesses and the countryside with increasing regularity, spending as much time as I responsibly can soaking in the natural world and learning how to delight.
Spiritual beauty
The creative and appreciative urge are the work of the Holy Spirit, which always has one job in a human life — to make us the creatures God intends.
To blaze his Name abroad
"Let us blaze his Name abroad,
For of gods he is the God;
For his mercies ay endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure."