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Poetica: Excerpt from For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W.H. Auden

Shadowlands Selections: November 2024

On Futility*

Next Tuesday: Dr. Gavin Ortlund on What It Means to Be Protestant

An Excerpt from Bridge Building Apologetics by Lindsey Medenwaldt

What Is Contemplative Realism—And Why Do You Need It?

The Grace of Shattered Illusions in O’Connor’s “Good Country People”

Shadowlands Selections: July 2024

Poetica: "Christchurch Meadow" by Daniel Fitzpatrick

Study Guide: “1970 Nobel Prize Speech” by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

On Sawing off the Branch One is Sitting Upon*

Book Review of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton*

Shadowlands Selections: June 2024

Study Guide: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Poetica: "Oxford Spinning" by Christiana Hale

Re-enchanting the World with G.K. Chesterton: Re-enchantment as a Spiritual Discipline

Shadowlands Selections: May 2024

Something to Remember: A Classical Christian Graduation Address

Poetica: "The Reading Mother" by Strickland Gillilan

Homer and the Sacred Fire

Shadowland Selections: April 2024

Poetica: "By the Powers of Good" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Study Guide: "Pray Without Ceasing" by Wendell Berry

Things Children Know: Imagination and Play

The Ultimate Eucatastrophe: How Fairy Tales Illuminate the Resurrection of Christ

Poetica: "FARTHER, FATHER, FEATHER" by Bradford Winters

Shadowlands Selections: March 2024

Stealing Past the Watchful Dragons: The Imaginative Apologetics of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

G.K. Chesterton on the Book of Job*

Poetica: "Dear March - Come in -" by Emily Dickinson

Shadowlands Selections: February 2024

The Sacred Year: Lent

Study Guide: "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Re-Enchantment through Video Games: Faith, Christian Media, and Gnosticism with Game Developer Evan Szymanski

Poetica: "Obsessed" by James Matthew Wilson

Penitence and Human Flourishing in Dante and Dostoevsky

Reading Chesterton

The Sacred Year: Celebrating Epiphany and Re-enchanting the Year through the Liturgical Calendar

Shadowlands Selections: January 2024

Charged with the Grandeur of God: Cultural Apologetics as a Christian Approach to Re-Enchantment