Seeing into other worlds -- in a novel Friends recommended Once Upon a River to us over dinner, saying it was one of their…

Reading the World—by James K. A. Smith In Praise of Boredom In his book The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew Crawford talks about what he…

Art and transcendence The West today is secularized, meaning that increasingly it is believed that human purpose and flourishing can be achieved without reference…

Performing to God’s Glory I do not mean to be peremptory or presumptuous, but there is a series of three books you really should…

“Culture changes,” the Rev. Timothy Keller says, “when a society’s mind, heart, and imagination are captured by new ideas that are developed by thinkers,…

Historical consistency is certainly one of the unique marks of Christianity. Christians proclaim the exclusive claims of Jesus as we respond to Jesus’ own…

I have never seen a work by Mary McCleary in person but wish I could. She makes collages, merging pieces of string, bits of…

I remember when I first fell in love with the art of printmaking. Somehow I came across the woodblock print by Albrecht Durer, Four…

“Beautiful things are a delight to the senses, a pleasure to the mind, and a refreshment for the spirit,” artist Makoto Fujimura writes in…

I first became aware of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ in a conversation with Howard Fox, then curator of contemporary art at the L.A. County…