Cultivating Hope
By Daniel Martins
The coronavirus lockdown has affected different people in many different ways. When I am tempted to feel sorry for myself, I am brought up short by the recollection of those whose lives hav... Read More...
Donna Reed and the Road of Meekness: It’s a Wonderful Life
We see Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed diverge: one stumbles down the road of wrath, the other patiently follows the road of meekness.
Jean Arthur and the Virtue of Kindness
It is Jean Arthur's kindness, in the end, that saves Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Virtue and the Women of Old Hollywood
To introduce my daughter to the seven classic virtues, I will enlist the help of classic guides: Ingrid Bergman, Myrna Loy, Katherine Hepburn, and Jean Arthur, among others.
Walker Percy and the Search for Meaning
Humanity’s search for understanding, meaning, and purpose haunted Percy and is a major theme of his oeuvre.
What kind of sycophant do you want me to be?
Fraud, including sycophancy, is endless: it corrosively renders all interactions questionable.
Dante in love
By Kevin Dodge Helping those we teach to read the signs of transcendence all around them is, to me, one of the central tasks of Christian education. When we start to see our world differently — as a world of signs “declaring the glory of God” (Ps. 19:1) — this is when distinctly Christian formation begins to take hold.
Sarah Smith of Golders Green
In the abstract, “sanctity” is boring.