Education in the Light of Glory

Education in the Light of Glory

Unless the Lord Builds the House: Shared Foundations for Christian Education  By Andrew Kern. CiRCE Institute, 2024. Paperback, 118 pages, $20.99. Reviewed by Jesse Hake. Andrew Kern’s vision for education in Unless the Lord Builds the House is as expansive and as...
Connecting with Aquinas, Connecting with Ourselves

Connecting with Aquinas, Connecting with Ourselves

Why Aquinas Matters Now By Oliver Keenan. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $22. Reviewed by J. Camden Kidwell. More than seven-hundred years have elapsed since Dominican friar St. Thomas Aquinas passed away. With all the changes in the world since the...
Et in Arcadia Ego

Et in Arcadia Ego

Fret Not  By Michael Shindler. Finishing Line Press, 2024. Paperback, 40 pages, $17.99. Reviewed by Dan Rattelle. A first look at Fret Not quickly reveals that its author, Michael Shindler, does not have an MFA. Good. Absent is any sort of knowing irony in its deeply...
Making It Home

Making It Home

Exile’s Journey By Jeffrey Bilbro. Little Gidding Press, 2024. Paperback, 64 pages, $11. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. In my recent contemplations about literature, I have been struck by the mundanity and profundity that often simultaneously accompany the act of reading....
The Intrinsic Argument for Free Speech

The Intrinsic Argument for Free Speech

The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage By Jonathan Turley. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Hardcover, 432 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan.  Free speech lurks amid many of the controversies of the last several centuries. From Charles I’s infamous...