On Graced Learning: Can Schools be Beautiful?
This article suggests that thinking of schools as “gardens of delight” reconnects learning, faith, and beauty.
This article suggests that thinking of schools as “gardens of delight” reconnects learning, faith, and beauty.
This essay proposes a philosophy that is committed to truth and passionate for comprehensive wisdom, one that expresses suffering out of hope for God’s future.
The author explores the work of Hafiz of Shiraz in examining the values of anatheism as an active category in contemporary spirituality.
Critiquing historical movements of modernity in the western church, Tom Ryan argues in this article that seasons of doubt are equally as important for faith as times of certainty, and are even necessary for fostering a genuine spirituality within the church.
Men and women today are haunted by a sense that in the midst of plenty, our lives seem barren. We are hungry for a greater nourishment of the soul. In the England of today, a businessman turned philosopher, Charles Handy, has won a widespread following with his writing. Capitalism, he argues, delivers the means but […]
The Storyteller sat at the stern, usurped the silent figurehead, addressed expectant oarsmen, spoke words that dropped like cascades through a canyon, like light across a ledge, like the silent sinking of skipping stones; told honest tales of half-deceptions— the easy-forwards, the frictive backstrokes of the drifting way; told of the flowing ebb of changing […]
“How must we live and work so as not to be estranged from God’s presence in His work and in all His creatures?”[1] This question, posed by Wendell Berry in his recent essay The Burden of the Gospels, provides an appropriate beginning for this brief foray into Berry’s thought. It assumes what I will assume here, that creation […]
TOJ: When did your interest in poetry begin? DR: I was first conscious of the magic of poetry in middle school when a student teacher asked us to read Tennyson’s “The Eagle.” The sound effects in that little poem blew me away—so much power in so few words. But I think by that age I […]