Your Footprints Are the Path
A pilgrim reflects on lessons learned along two journeys, one in New Haven and another along El Camino. By Abigail Storch
A pilgrim reflects on lessons learned along two journeys, one in New Haven and another along El Camino. By Abigail Storch
Both Richard Ford and Walker Percy write novels of modern man struggling with a world devoid of meaning—but the journeys their characters take lead them to altogether different destinations. By Jeff Reimer
The daughter of parents who left Amish and Mennonite communities behind, Julia Kasdorf writes poems that celebrate and mourn both her lost home and her new one—leaving her perpetually in the liminal space between. By Michial Farmer
Pilgrimages, among other things, help orient us rightly and unite us with our fellow travelers—leading us far from the rubbernecking, side-of-the-road posture toward the world encouraged by our modern consumption of the daily news. By Jeffrey Bilbro
Two recent movies illustrate the beauties and complexities of loving the places we call home. By Alex Sosler
By Justin Hawkins. Christian humanism and liberal learning may not save the world—but that doesn’t make them less worthy of our pursuit.
By Rowan Williams. It is not despair, but rather an unflinching honesty about the real horrors of the world, that characterizes Eliot's later poems.
A poet reads Auden and reflects on love, joy, and suffering in an anxious age.
By L.M. Sacasas. Drawing on the writings of Jacques Ellul, we can see that small adjustments to our practices will not be enough to alter our society’s relationship to technology.
By Tessa Carman. Simone Weil recognized “the need for roots”; Czeslaw Milosz named our age as one of homelessness. Both remind us that our work is always rooted in who we are.