The Archive

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Paul J. PastorPoetryJournalWinter 2026

Of Holy Indolence, the End of All Life

To open our hands and not ask why is sometimes one of the best things we can do.

Chris SibbenTechnologyEducationFormation

A Hollow Crown: AI and the Formation of Students

Generative AI can mimic the traces of a mind at work, but it cannot replicate the slow, difficult formation of a human soul.

Lucy S. R. AustenBook ReviewsJournalWinter 2026

Man and Machine

The history of the book shows us that human frailty and cruelty have led to horrors, and that human goodness and strength have created powerful change for the better.

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

Creating Membership

For Berry and the Christian tradition, authentic political community is a thing that can be created, not merely something that arises from nature.

Cameron ShafferFamily

Keeping Kids Christian: Bonus Q and A

We did not get to all the questions in our recent book forum with Cameron Shaffer. So he provided written answers to several final questions.

Katy CarlBook Reviews

A Passage Through the Dark

Can story outdo wrongheaded calculation, political machination, and ideological influence, all to awaken and regenerate our capacity to choose the good?

Andrew KaufmannBook Reviews

George Scialabba’s Utopian Hopes

Scialabba's wandering meditation on hope is not without flaws, yet it remains instructive and worth engaging on many distinct levels.

Elisabeth Lasch-QuinnBook Reviews

Lucky to be Grateful

If we have loved something good with a deep and faithful love, then even if that thing is lost, we still have cause for gratitude.

Alex KneenPoetry

A Psalm for Easter

An Easter psalm by Alex Kneen

Hayden NesbitTheology

Embracing the God Who Bleeds

On Good Friday we remember the God who bleeds and who, in his death, calls us to join him in death so we might join him in his resurrection.

Alex StevensTechnologyFormation

Aquinas, AI, and the Pursuit of Learning

The ascent of AI does create new challenges for knowing what is real, but the tools that we have always relied upon still have much to offer us.

Matthew LoftusBook ReviewsJournalWinter 2026

Deconstructing Pessimism

We should find hope in the fact that it is actually quite difficult to truly embrace pessimism