An Encounter with the Ordinary

An Encounter with the Ordinary

Anthony Esolen: Sometimes a single encounter with what is healthy and ordinary is enough to shake you out of the bad dreams of disease and confusion.

Living with a Mind

Living with a Mind

Roger Scruton: The life of the mind is a lifelong recreation, a re-creation of reality, and a way of belonging. 

A Church That Was

A Church That Was

Peter Hitchens: The languages of architecture, music, and poetry work mightily on us when we are not aware of it

The Two Trees

The Two Trees

When the home of our thoughts shifts from ‘who am I?’ to ‘Who is He?’ I believe we begin to fathom the miracle of ‘Christ in us, the hope of glory.'

A Longing Rooted in Loss

A Longing Rooted in Loss

Sometime in the 10th century, an Old English poem is recorded in a book donated to Exeter Cathedral — a poem about an unmoored exile who has lost his home and now roves the earth searching for a new one.

Connecting Mastery and Joy

Connecting Mastery and Joy

Have you ever looked at an actual Rembrandt? I mean really looked? I have. And it is exhausting. Why? Because Rembrandt was a master. If you are willing to look, he will show more than you can take in. This is what masters do.

Who is Your Art For?

Who is Your Art For?

Advice from John Steinbeck, Annie Dillard, J.K. Rowling, and more.

Someone Needs Your Art

Someone Needs Your Art

No one's going to miss your unfinished novels or paintings. Or will they?

Learning from the Inklings

Learning from the Inklings

Though we toil over art, nurturing it and sending it out with a final benediction into a wider arena, our fruit is an offshoot and not the core of our creativity.