" I was able to observe how power works in all its guises. I don’t expect people to be heroic, I just think that there are certain limits, both professional (betraying one’s theoretical vocation –...
Beginning at mid-century, the broadchurch Anglican F.D. Maurice and his pupil, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, began espousing the virtues of muscular Christianity. Maurice and Kingsley, like many Engli...
"Christianity is not reconciliation with death. It is the revelation of death, and it reveals death because it is the revelation of Life. Christ is this Life. And only if Christ is Life is death wh...
Ironic living is a first-world problem. For the relatively well educated and financially secure, irony functions as a kind of credit card you never have to pay back. In other words, the hipster can...
A strange illness has appeared in our days – the passion for distractions. Never before was there such a desire for distractions; people have forgotten how to lead a serious life for the good of ot...
Many years later, he heard some of Inigo’s last words in the film again — "I have been in the revenge business so long, now that’s over, I do not know what to do with the rest of my life" — and he ...
"Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood." - S.T. Coleridge