The Value of Uselessness

Philosophers Michael Oakeshott, Johan Huizinga, and Josef Pieper can show us the wisdom of play.

Choices at Play

An interactive story editor examines how in-game tensions between story and play teach us about real world agency.

A director and Shakespeare-lover analyzes a recent production of Macbeth.

A fantasy football enthusiast considers modes of prediction and the fun of imagination.

We would do well to read Rowan Williams alongside Robin Wall Kimmerer, just as we should read Maximos the Confessor alongside Thomas Aquinas.

Opening remarks for Issue 19: Nature by Moriah Hawkins

Author Betsy Painter shares about her journey toward thinking theologically about conservation.

A gardener offers an interpretation of John's resurrection account.

Children’s love of prehistory is more meaningful than we tend to think.

New research is showing that the natural world is much more conscious than we might think—and it behooves us, as its keepers, to pay attention.

A poem by Michael Stalcup

"Apium Way" cocktail recipe from the editors