Poetry: The Grammar of Becoming
The Grammar of Becoming Alone – I become: I (am) Only as I am You to another. I am not until You exist; Therefore, I am – A subject as Your predicate. The object of Your gaze, directly. You…
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Review: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain
Melanie Keefe. Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. vi+ 232pp. £16.99 hardcover. In her insightful and well-researched monograph, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain, Melanie…
“Mark You, Something Decisive Has Been Lost”: Reading Romano Guardini Today
A pivotal figure of Ressourcement, the spiritual and intellectual movement that rose within French- and German-speaking Catholic academia between 1930 and 1950, was the Italian-born German Catholic priest Romano Guardini (1885-1968). One of the most important Catholic intellectuals of the…
Poetry: A Poem by Emma Hinds
‘The Rape of Tamar,’ comes from the poetry collection ‘The Song of Birds,’ by Emma Hinds, a collection focused on the lives of biblical women. Starting with Eve and ending with Mary the mother of Christ, the poems progress through…
Review: Reading in the Wilderness
Jessica Brantley, Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 463. £38.00, Hardcover. In the British Library is a 15th-century collection of Middle English religious…
Review: Waiting on the Word, with the Word (and Malcolm Guite)
Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. London: Canterbury Press, 2015, 978-184-825-8006, 158 pp, £10.99. In keeping with the spirit of the Advent season, Malcolm Guite has given another gift to the church. “One…
Review: Roger Scruton’s ‘Soul of the World’
Roger Scruton. The Soul of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, viii + 205 pp., $27.95 cloth. In this, the forty-first text of non-fiction published by Roger Scruton, the central aim is no less than the salvation of the…
Poetry: Tim Bartel
The following two poems were written as part of a project exploring the possibilities of employing iambic pentameter – that worn, old meter perfected by the Bard himself – in poetry of an otherwise contemporary idiom. Robert Frost deserves credit…
Millennial Christians and the Post-Evangelical Love for Sufjan Stevens
As early as 2005, the Los Angeles Times was announcing the arrival of a new generation of musicians whose preference for introversion over boisterous ego and overwrought sexuality signaled a “Soft Revolution” of sorts. At the forefront of this timid overturning within the music…