The Faithful Remnant
by Mark BauerleinFr. Robert McTeigue .S.J joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era. Continue Reading »
Shakespeare and God
by Mark BauerleinLee Oser joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Christian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature. Continue Reading »
A “Somewhere” Composer
by Richard BratbyIt’s about a quarter to ten at night on August 17, 2019, and I’m standing outside the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, smiling. It’s one of those Edinburgh Festival nights when the streets are still crowded but there’s already a foretaste of autumn in the air, a warning chill in the sea breezes that . . . . Continue Reading »
Loving and Hating the Middle Ages
by John DugganModern people, despite being drawn to medieval aesthetics and artificats, cannot seem to bear to examine what those artifacts are modeled on: the intelligible order glimpsed by the eye of faith. Continue Reading »
The Gospel According to Kanye
by Liel LeibovitzIf you don’t pay too much attention to pop culture, you may be forgiven for thinking that the story of the past fifty years in American entertainment goes something like this: Once upon a time, our arts were a verdant and unspoiled Eden. On TV, father knew best. On the radio, Gene Autry rested . . . . Continue Reading »
Geoffrey Hill, Prodigal
by Garrick DavisAmong poets writing in English during the last forty years, Geoffrey Hill was sometimes named the greatest one alive, but he was always named the most difficult one to read. He had come to live and teach in America in the 1980s, along with a brilliant group which included Paul Muldoon at . . . . Continue Reading »
The Christian Vision of “The War Room”
by William Doino Jr.Released last summer in theaters, and now available on DVD, The War Room was the most surprising hit film of 2015—and one of the most rewarding. It is an explicitly Christian drama which proclaims Christ as Lord and Savior, affirms the power of prayer, and emphasizes the reality and danger of . . . . Continue Reading »
“O Christian Art, Why Can't You Be Good?”
by Mathew Block The Contemporary Christian Music industry has shrunk to a third of its former size. Is dissatisfaction with a Christian copy-cat culture to blame? And what is “good” Christian art anyway?
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