The Real Paradox of Individualism
The conflict for power between the state and the individual will not be reconciled by a state empowered to protect freedom, but rather by a thriving and active civil society.
Out with the Old
As the contemporary church moves to throw off the errors of the separatist generations who came before, the example of Francis and Edith Schaeffer’s work at L’Abri provides a valuable example of true incarnational community.
You Can’t Choose Your Friends
In a culture obsessed with choice and individual responsibility, the persistent realness of friendship denies our persistent attempts to define and contain it.
The Life of Perished Things
By Joshua Rio-Ross. Reflections on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping forty years after its release.
The Good Life is Slow
By Alex Engebretson. The slow pace and deep delight in the beauty of the world that characterize Marilynne Robinson's Gilead novels can counter-catechize us to the demands of our liberal, capitalist society. The Church should take advantage of that.
Taking Humanity Seriously
Drawing on Robinson's essay collection The Death of Adam, Jennifer Frey looks at why the search for subjective happiness is leaving so many of us lonely, anxious, and unfulfilled.
van Heemskerck II, Egbert; A Quaker Meeting with a Self Portrait; National Trust, Saltram; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/a-quaker-meeting-with-a-self-portrait-101516
Democracy in America
By Rebecca Lewis. Marilynne Robinson has a high regard for American democracy--but she urges us to remember that it requires great humility and diligent tending in order to flourish.
The Anger of Marilynne Robinson
By Justin Hawkins. Even thirty years later, Marilynne Robinson's Mother Country has not been adequately answered.