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Learning from Old Literature: A Reflection on “The Ruin”
Top 5 Ratzinger Books
A Reading List for 3 Holy Habits
David and Goliath
Cultivating Attention: The Challenge of Reading Great Literature
“Story of a Soul”: The Little Way to Be Filled with Grace
Leading With Beauty: Tales of Faith for Evangelization
“Love in the Ruins”: Walker Percy’s End of the World
“A Printer’s Choice” Explores Creation as Sci-Fi Nightmare
A Septet of Good Books to Read in 2022
George Orwellʼs “1984” and the Catholic Sensibility
“Strange Rites” and the Promise of Natural Religion
To Live in Light: Good Advice from Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Memento Mori” Calls Us to Live in Death
Tolkien and Peter Pan: Death and the Desire for Deathlessness
Tailored to Our Time, but “The Green Knight” Is Still Worth It
Read Until Your Eyes Hurt!
Why We Need Fantasy Literature
Christ at the Center: Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “As kingfishers catch fire”
The Small Red Flame—Hope and Brideshead Revisited
Will the Real J.R.R. Tolkien Please Stand Up?
Should We Cancel Homer? Ask Bob Dylan
A Lewis Scholar and a Character: Remembering Walter Hooper (1931-2020)
The Reclamation of Ebenezer Scrooge
Narcissus and 2020: Peering Past the Surfaces
In Defense of Common Art: Why Fiction Matters in Catholic Culture
“The Witches”: HBO Adaptation Will Appeal to Christians, Start Conversations
The Pathetic as Hero: “The Diary of a Country Priest”
A Chapter That Changed My Life: J.R.R. Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories”
A Chapter That Changed My Life: Wendell Berry’s “Jayber Crow”
“Urgency, Power, Drama”: Jessica Hooten Wilson on Literature and Redemption
Digging Deeper and Building Higher: Further Advice for Christian Writers
Fr. Connor Danstrom’s Music Seeks Out the Hard and Dark Places
The Family Bookshelf: Secular Books Can Complement Catholic Catechesis
5 Practical Suggestions for Aspiring Christian Writers
5 Reasons the “Great Books” Are Essential Reading for Evangelists
Reckoning with the Complexities of Humankind
Wholesome Books: 5 Suggestions for Imaginative Refreshment
The Truth Hurts
Finding Grace in the Consuming Blackness of “King Lear”
Dr. Holly Ordway on Apologetics and the Christian Imagination
With Lent: To Awaken One Day on the Shoulder of God
Love and Friendship in “Pride and Prejudice”
When Flannery O’Connor Schooled the English Professors
“Dracula”: A Bland Betrayal of Vampire Lore
Your Story and Mine: Why Everyone Should Read Classic Literature
