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)…
Driving with the Brakes On: Why Doing Justice Is So Difficult
Culture / Maturity and Flourishing / Pluralistic World
Why does the health care system continue to fail millions? Why have poverty rates remained the same for thirty years? Why do problems like…
Our Only World: Ten Essays (Wendell Berry, 2015)
Seeing What’s Really Around Us When I was small it was not uncommon for some adult to mention that some fool or other needed…
Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions (Phil Zuckerman, 2014)
How to be secular The purpose that motivated Phil Zuckerman to write Living the Secular Life is elegant in its simplicity. A convinced secularist…
How (Not) to be Secular (James K.A. Smith, 2014)
Insight into our secular world In 2007 McGill University philosopher Charles Taylor published A Secular Age, the culmination of a lifetime of careful study…
The Weepies, Sirens (2015)
This is not the way I thought it would be Sirens (2015), the first full-length album by The Weepies in five years, released after…
Fool’s Talk (Os Guinness, 2015)
Persuasive faith in a dismissive world Over the decades, Os Guinness has written books that have named exactly what’s needed to be named for…
Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell (2015)
When loss and love in the past linger For several days after downloading Sufjan Steven’s latest album, Carrie & Lowell, I simply pressed REPEAT…
The Power of Ideas
Over the years scholars have looked back on Stalin’s bloody and brutal dictatorship and tried to explain how such a man could have done…
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt, 2013)
Beauty alters the grain of reality Imagine growing up having lost your mother when you are thirteen in an explosion at an art museum…