Wolfgang Smith’s Legacy: A Metaphysician for Our Times
On July 19, 2024, the world lost Wolfgang Smith, one of the most underappreciated yet profoundly important thinkers of our time. A rare polymath,...
Musical Offering: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending!
Say what you like about the early Methodists, but they could write some melodious hymns, and one of the greatest and most prolific is...
God: The Science, the Evidence – A Review
God: The Science, the Evidence, by Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies, is an intriguing book, not quite what I expected when asked to review...
Eliot’s Ash Wednesday
T.S. Eliot published his poem Ash Wednesday in 1930, after he had composed during his conversion to Anglicanism (in 1927). The theme is, fittingly,...
Arthur Brooks and the Architecture of Meaning in the Christian Life
“Your life does have meaning, and you can find it.” – The Meaning of Your Life.
At a time when many young adults are fixated...
Musical Offering: Starry, Starry Night
On this July 27th, in 1890, Vincent van Gogh - who suffered from mental illness for much of his life - shot himself in...
Bruckner’s Ave Maria
In honour of Our Lady's birthday, here is Anton Bruckner’s Ave Maria, which he composed in 1861, and first performed on May 12th of...
In the Bleak Midwinter, Gaudete Christus Natus Est
It's lovely how the simplest tunes often - perhaps most often, maybe even always - make the most beautiful of melodies. So it is...
Saint Patrick’s Magnificat
Towards the end of his life, Saint Patrick wrote his 'Confessions' which, like his near-contemporaneous Saint Augustine's autobiography of the same title, is meant...
Grace in the Gutter
A Christmas Reflection on Evil, Freedom, and Redemption in Bad Santa
Editors’ note: the film reviewed below contains explicit sexual and violent scenes, sustained crudity...
