The Setting Sun in a Foreign Land
Experience and the written word seem to indicate that separation is beneficial on various levels. Thus, in order to truly appreciate something, one must…
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‘About Suffering They Were Never Wrong’
Just before the dawn of the bloodiest century, Mark Twain conducted ‘scientific experiments’ in the London Zoological Gardens in which he contrasted the characteristics…
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Javert Derailed: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
If you had told me a year ago that I would write a play and get to see it performed in London in front…
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Ronnie Knox, the Priest as Man of Letters
The eclipse in Ronald Knox’s fortunes after his death contrasts starkly with the recognition that he had enjoyed in his lifetime as writer, classicist,…
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The Lands Between: Working in Interdisciplinary Spaces
Gerard Loughlin has referred to interdisciplinary scholars as ‘those who work at the edges … who wander, though determinedly, in the lands between, in…
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Synoptic Imagination
In the introduction to the Imagination Symposium, I mentioned that I would be writing on synthetic imagination. Recent conversations with colleagues, however, persuaded me…
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Review: Redeeming Laughter
Peter Berger, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience, 2nd ed. New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2014. 201 pp. £22.99/$42.00 Fittingly, the title…
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Re-Enchantment and Post-Secularity in Game of Thrones
Question: What do Daenerys Targaryen, The Unburnt, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, and yourself—with fingers hovering idly over trackpad and eyes bouncing across…
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Review: Theology, Aesthetics & Culture (Part 3)
Editor’s Note: This is the third and final part of a three-part review. To read the entire series, please see parts one and two….
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