Original Essays

Cultivating the Virtue of Inquisitiveness

by Dr. Julie Miller

Jan 30 • Shadowlands Dispatch

Is Expressive Individualism Dead?

January's Edition of "Field Notes from the Shadowlands" by Lanie Anderson

Jan 15 • Shadowlands Dispatch

2026: Intentionality and a Well-Curated Life

A Reflective Essay by Dr. Melissa Cain Travis

Dec 30, 2025 • Shadowlands Dispatch and Melissa Cain Travis

Where Are You Christmas: The Antidote to Holiday Grief

November's Edition of "Field Notes from the Shadowlands" by Lanie Anderson

Nov 13, 2025 • Shadowlands Dispatch

Mob Physics and the Virtuous Leader

A Reflective Essay by David Wolcott

Oct 27, 2025 • Shadowlands Dispatch

The Christian Story: An Opiate for Human Suffering?

October's Edition of "Field Notes from the Shadowlands" by Lanie Anderson

Oct 16, 2025 • Shadowlands Dispatch

Beauty's Retrieval as a Christian Vocation

by Emily Phillips

Oct 1, 2025 • Shadowlands Dispatch

The Sustaining Nature of a Good Book

September's Edition of "Field Notes from the Shadowlands" by Lanie Anderson

Sep 8, 2025 • Shadowlands Dispatch

2025: Celebrating 17 Centuries of the Nicene Creed

by Dr. Melissa Cain Travis

Jul 10, 2025 • Shadowlands Dispatch

The Drama of Dogma: Dorothy Sayers’s Theological Vision in Verse

by Dr. Sara Burt

May 19, 2025 • Shadowlands Dispatch

On Buckets with Holes

A Reflective Essay by Dr. Melissa Cain Travis

Apr 10, 2025 • Shadowlands Dispatch

Children, Imagination, and the Recovery of the Image of God

By Lanie Anderson

Mar 18, 2025 • Shadowlands Dispatch

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