In a culture so materialistic it misses out on what matters about the things it is so desperate to own, language can bring us closer to real love for the material world. By Marie Glancy O’Shea
The long tradition of the icon in Eastern Christianity has sometimes baffled Western thinkers, but a sacramental understanding of the link between image and reality can shed some light on the mystery. By Jordan Parro
What might a bucket of soapy water and clean laundry drying on the line have to say about the soul? By Matthew Beringer
A philanthropy professional on why generosity can be complicated—and how to cut through the red tape. By Sharon Rajadurai
An architectural designer excavates the emptiness of the suburban dream and offers an alternative way to create our places and spaces. By Reuben Zeiset
When we call beauty unnecessary or self-indulgent, we’re limiting the scope of love. By Katy Carl
An artist looks beyond mere technical achievement to ground artistic vocation in the lifelong journey of faith. By Brian Prugh
We put attention at the center of AI—now we have to attend to who we are in the face of what we’ve made. By Joshua Rio-Ross
Our capacity for attention slips and slides and is at all times imperfect, but God’s gaze on us never wavers. By Alice Courtright
Reconceptualizing attention through the metaphor of touch can deepen our experience of it—not just as a sharpening of vision, but as an immersion in that to which we attend. By Asher Gelzer-Govatos
A new theory of how to understand time, first proposed by Einstein, offers a way to honor the worth and importance of a universe and timeline too vast for our attention. By Stephen Case
The picture of peace in Isaiah 2 is one in which the possibility of self-defense is eliminated. It’s a commitment to peace so unrelenting that those who seek it burn their ships and leave themselves without the option of retaliation.