Joshua Hren

The story of Maximilian Kolbe stirs hearts and souls across the globe. Continue Reading »

For Saunders, fiction is fundamentally moral.
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In his short story “The Trouble,” the American Catholic writer J. F. Powers refuses to stay in his lane. Continue Reading »

Hemingway’s little-known play Today is Friday is a haunting depiction of Christ's crucifixion.  Continue Reading »

Jack Kerouac’s Vanity of Duluoz is devoted to the cross.  Continue Reading »

In Love Among the Ruins, Evelyn Waugh examines how secular culture shelters us from ultimate realities.  Continue Reading »

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Thank You for the Light” captures how Christ transfigures the mundane.  Continue Reading »

Though George Saunders may have formally left the Church, its forms didn’t leave him. Continue Reading »

“Evil is ‘thought-defying,’ because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its ‘banality.’”—Hannah Arendt “That corpse you planted last year in your . . . . Continue Reading »

The lesser angels of our present dangerArraign the better angels of our natureAnd rearrange the stature of our hatredOn which the union of our state is wagered. For Madison if men could angels beNo government could claim necessity;If angels governed men there’d be no needFor mechanisms to suppress . . . . Continue Reading »