Christmas isn’t just safe and cheery. It has a deeply beautiful dark side.
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2018
Christmas is a beautiful building block to begin to plant a flag, make a place, and let things have their proper meaning again.
An interview in the Circe Institute’s Forma Journal.
Thoughts on the Apostle of the Imagination.
A sonnet of reclamation, by Malcolm Guite.
Rod Dreher: We are called to testify in the ruins, by our lives and our art, to the reality of God.
Dr. Malcolm Guite (Cambridge) and Dr. Michael Ward (Oxford) introduce the Christian imaginations of Dante and C.S. Lewis.
Ken Robertson explores the art of lament as a response to grief…and as a way to walk with God through darkness.
No matter how small or great our bounded space may be in any given season, there is room to do what He has given us to do.
This piece by John Skillen of Gordon College has profoundly influenced our vision of a healthy relationship between pastors, artists, audience, and patrons.
Madeleine L’Engle’s spiritual legacy shows the challenges that can come with trying to show people who they truly are.
Anselm Society director Brian Brown wrote a piece for the summer 2018 issue of The Cultivating Project on the role of art and artists in spiritual formation.
The Anselm Society is pleased to make available the audio from every lecture and panel from the conference.
Explore what it means to cultivate in context of a whole life, what a rule of life is, how it works, and how to create one for yourself.
Sacraments and sacramental living were a daily reality for most people in the past, but often not so much for 21st century North Americans.
All great works of art are at heart monster stories, whether the monsters are dragons, step-mothers, social injustices, or even the self.
The Anselm Society's second annual Your Imagination Redeemed conference inspired artists, pastors, and laity from around the country.
Kristopher Orr’s “Western Wind” is a call to the Church to remember her name.