Trust and Hope as the Final Words
Silent No More: Bible Women Speak Up, A Poetic Meditation By Christine Kohler. Resource Publications, 2024. Hardcover, 78 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Annmarie McLaughlin. Christine Kohler’s poetry debut, Silent No More: Bible Women Speak Up, A Poetic Meditation,...
Beyond Stoicism
After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher By Thomas M. Ward. Word on Fire Academic, 2024. Hardcover, 216 pages, $34.95. 365 Lessons from the Stoics By Andrea Kirk Assaf. William Collins, 2024. Hardcover, 256 pages, $19.19 Reviewed by Father Joseph...
Leisure and the Lost Ascent
An essay on Josef Pieper’s “Leisure: The Basis of Culture” By Catherine Contonio. The modern world no longer recognizes the Greeks’ concept of leisure. The Greeks, in turn, would no longer recognize the modern notion of work, which has spread to cover the whole of...
Bring Back the Virtues, Medieval Style
Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole and Holy Life By Grace Hamman. Zondervan Academic, 2025. Hardcover, 224 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. A few years ago, my husband and I learned we were expecting a girl. As we were considering...
Decades ago, Robert Nisbet anticipated many of today’s concerns about loneliness, bureaucracy, and declining community. Luke C. Sheahan (@lsheahan) revisits the ideas behind those warnings and their relevance today.
Questions about first principles have become fashionable again. @HorcherF and @DanJTPitt apply generosity to smooth contention between intellectuals and politicians, they embrace the tension between theory and practice, and they highlight the power of particularity as a source of