On Generosity

Join Brian, Sarah, Christina, and Matthew as they explore Tolstoy’s Where Love is, God is Also and how old virtues and generosity matter today in our modern, buffered world of social media and technology.

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Scott Cairns’s “Alone in the Busy”

Award-winning poet Scott Cairns, Guggenheim Fellow and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Using his own poetry and prose, Cairns explores how we can recover communion in the face of isolation.

Peter Leithart’s “Dostoevsky and the Desire for Freedom”

In prison, Dostoevsky discovered that the desire for freedom was the wellspring of human action. But this wellspring comes from a deeper source.

How to Organize your own common room

While this January holds yet another Common Room gathering, many are unfamiliar with the concept and asked about its foundational principles. In this post, the woman behind the idea shares the why and the how of creating a Common Room to which all are invited — to write, read, sew, paint, sketch, or daydream.