What’s Going On With David Brooks?
Second Mountain shows that Brooks’s odyssey in faith will be complicated. But why shouldn’t a sincere conversion in twenty-first-century America be complicated or unconventional?
How to Be Perfect
The command to be perfect is only a deeper statement of the startling ethics Jesus presents in the beginning of the chapter in the beatitudes.
Wendell Berry, Poet and Prophet
Wendell Berry, this great Bard — as great an American voice as Thoreau’s or Whitman’s — assumes that the reality before and all around us in nature is infinitely complex and therefore cannot be fully comprehended by any human intellect.
Faith in Learning, Muhlenberg, and a Catholic Education
Central to the Church school in Muhlenberg's vision is the authority of the headmaster or rector of the school.
Memorials and Magnanimity
The uneasy history of my family leads me to ask hard questions about history itself.
Walker Percy, Doctor of Malaise and Desire
How can the individual find sanity in a sick and dying culture?
Walker Percy: Deep-South Aristocrat
It is clear from Percy’s novels and other published work that he could only have been from the Deep South.
Walker Percy and the Search for Meaning
Humanity’s search for understanding, meaning, and purpose haunted Percy and is a major theme of his oeuvre.