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Kirsten SandersBooksCultureTechnologyJournalSummer 2026

Apocalypse Now

Park thinks that apocalypse can tuck us deeper into the world, like the dead who are buried in the natural cemeteries she describes. But she cannot hold onto the belief that accompanied this vision for burying the dead.

ChurchFormationAlex Fogleman

The Heart of the Catechist

Teaching with joy requires humility, attention, and faithfulness.

Ronni KurtzTheology

On the End of Theology

A good pair of glasses is only a means to the end of better vision, just as theology is a means to the great end of beholding God.

Annie CrawfordJournalSummer 2026FormationCulture

From Babel to Belonging: C. S. Lewis’s Fairy-Tale Cure for the Modern Machine

'That Hideous Strength' is a story about how to live with faith and hope in a world threatened by chaos and tyranny.

BooksBibleCultureGillis Harp

Christian Politics Without Idolatry

'Reimagining Biblical Politics' is an invaluable resource that provides the sort of insightful and practical Bible-based reflection that has been so conspicuously absent from many American churches.

JournalSummer 2026Health & MedicineBooksCultureMatthew Loftus

Man vs. Infectious Disease

The history told in 'The Great Shadow' is vast but incomplete.

Ashley HalesJournalSummer 2026BooksTheology

We Still Need Fairy Tales

Zipes correctly diagnoses how fairy tales name the longing for the world to be different than it is, but he misses the cure.

CultureJohn Fea

Religious Liberty for All

The deeper question this report raises is not whether religious Americans deserve protection. It is whether "religious liberty," in this administration's hands, means freedom for all faiths to practice without government interference.

JournalSummer 2026TheologyCultureJake Meador

Stewarding Land and Language

What is needed, rather, is some account that offers us a way to name the things that are higher than us, a way to love those things, and a way to tune our lives to them.

Gracy OlmsteadPoetryObituary

In Memory: Wendell Berry

an attempt to say what Mr. Berry of Port Royal meant to us

James WoodCultureBooksTheologyJournalSummer 2026

The Return of the Common Good

Stefan Borg’s The Return of the Common Good: The Postliberal Project Left and Right arrives as a welcome—and much-needed—intervention in the liberalism debates.

Joseph OrsoFormationBooksFamily

When Everything Is Forgotten

The following excerpt from Joseph Orso, On the Threshold of Worlds: Tending My Father Before and After His Last Breath is published with permission from Front Porch Republic Books and