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Antonio Spadaro responds to plans to build a bridge across the Strait of Messina.

I wanted living color, an axe to break the frozen sea.

Not too long ago, the internet was a place you visited. The family desktop sat in its designated closet or back office. In schools, there were rooms filled with computers…

I have been hoping for a reckoning about covid for years now, and this book is a major step in that direction.

With "Civil War" and now "Warfare," the writer-director has made two consecutive movies about the “what” of armed conflicts rather than the “why”

I found that Wink has not simply played haphazardly with an abundance of tropes but collected them together, arranged them in a pile—so he could then throw them aside and…

It is such a joy to finally figure out something my son has been trying to say. Just so, it is a joy when a particular passage of Scripture finally…

Chatbots aren’t new. Joseph Weizenbaum created one in 1966. And what happened next led him to become a vocal critic of his own creation. What did he see that we…

Still it waves. Still it sings.

In 2024, I held my first Margarita Mile. I’ve done more since then. It’s simple. I invite a group of friends. Using sidewalk chalk, I mark a start line and…

The details of the dissolution of the Honors College at Tulsa continue to be quite discouraging.

When the wood deepened, the clean wearing of the earth itself wore away into indistinguishable concord.

In the ultimate form of mimesis, the well-seasoned mower who comes to know every inch of the property he maintains, also comes, in the end, to know the contours and…

How we use our free time might be the difference between a professionally successful but ultimately mediocre life and the life of a saint.

We've made it all the way from the overstepping of Orpheus, the land, and poetry into something our own lives can do (spill over as though water from a fountain--or,…

On Politics, Spirituality, Walt Whitman, and the Healing of the United States

The right kind of literature has the power to make the immediate visible to us once again.

Insofar as "The Bee" now occupies something near the center of American Christian discourse, what’s crowded out, I think, is an articulated (not just implied-by-negation) path toward holiness . .…

One of the most curious things about raising two boys seventeen years apart is the divide I feel in their digital generations.

Scott was a scholar of reciprocity, collaboration, and a kind of stubborn agrarianism that is the opposite of romantic and a requisite of real, existing democracy. Let him rest in…

A weary, hungry child is walking through the forest, the emerald-green hues of the dense foliage gleaming shyly in the rays of a young summer day. From far above, the…

Encouraged, not only by the burgeoning online-use of Oldenburg’s term "third place," but by a young person’s desire to engage with it, I decided to reach out to Madison.

Building community doesn’t map well into the high value we place on choice at the individual level.

Some good things can only exist at the person-to-person level. To institutionalize them drains them of their moral power.