Patricia Westerhof

Marking Time

In this personal essay, Patricia Westerhof questions her life as a teacher, especially the slow, thankless work of grading papers.

Lee Passarella

There’s a Divinity…

In this poem, Lee Passarella muses on the education of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, an artist who one hundred years after his death still has his ardent admirers and his ardent critics.

Ben Suriano

On What Could Quite Rightly Pass for a Fetish: Some Thoughts on Whether “Every Christian Should ‘Quite Rightly Pass for an Atheist’”

In this essay, Ben Suriano responds to Jon Stanley’s claim that there are at least two (very biblical) ways that every Christian would do well to “quite rightly pass for an atheist.” The essay argues that every Christian should rather “quite rightly pass for a Christian” because the predominant form of atheism is in fact the core metaphysical and ontological assumption that makes possible the imperial logics operative in both the Roman and modern order.

Andrew Krinks, Lindsey Krinks

A Peculiar Education: Homelessness, Poetry, and the Imagination

In this article, Andrew and Lindsey Krinks suggest that at the intersection between an imaginative exploration of poetry and a creative ministry to the homeless lies a unique potential for the sort of education that is “peculiar” and thus ideal for a life of Christian discipleship, a life that seeks to cultivate reconciliation for the sake of God’s kingdom.