Charles Taylor’s award-winning work, A Secular Age, has caused ripples in the academic world with its bold analysis of western history and powerful arguments…

Beauty in Life An important word for artist Makoto Fujimura is generative, by which he means anything that brings beauty into life to bring…

Sometimes a wind comes out of nowhere In Minnesota we are used, each winter, to the jet stream bringing great stretches of cold arctic…

I’ve plagiarized the title for this review—it’s the subtitle of a new book from Square Halo Books: Revealed: A Storybook Bible for Grown-ups. I…

When Nigeria is Home I was handed a book, told I should read it, did, and now want to recommend it to you. Our…

Islam: Christians seeking understanding If you haven’t done much reading on Islam it might be time to begin given its importance as a religion…

Please Note: all books can be ordered through www.heartsandmindsbooks.com Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Non-fiction) Author: Atul Gawande Metropolitan Books,…

When National Self-interest Begets Trouble The First World War has always seemed like a distant reality to me—a horrible conflict that engulfed other people…

Excerpt from God in the Sink Last summer in the space of a few weeks, I received more invitations to speak than I had…

Alain de Botton, philosopher and author of The Architecture of Happiness (which I recommend) has launched a project through The School of Life (theschooloflife.com)…