Celebrating the Life of Michael Tilson Thomas

By |2026-04-27T14:40:55-05:00April 27th, 2026|Categories: Audio/Video, Music|

Rest in peace, Michael Tilson Thomas. From those of us in the San Francisco Bay Area (and well beyond) who so enjoyed your years as music director, conductor, and the glorious face of the San Francisco Symphony, know that you will never be forgotten. I hate deaths. At the risk of stating the obvious, they [...]

A Christian Philosophy of Education

By |2026-04-20T15:46:28-05:00April 19th, 2026|Categories: Christianity, Culture, Education, Religion|

Just what is Christian education? Is it Protestant education, is it evangelical Christian education, or does it also encompass Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox viewpoints? More than sixty years ago, A.W. Tozer wrote: There is, unfortunately, a feeling in some quarters today that there is something innately wrong about learning, and that to be spiritual [...]

“Resurrection”

By |2026-04-10T12:56:01-05:00April 10th, 2026|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Dwight Longenecker, Easter, Imagination, Poetry, Religion, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

Several years ago, when I was in Europe leading a pilgrimage tour to England with Joseph Pearce, I learned that the Shroud of Turin was to be on display for veneration in Turin. After the pilgrimage in England I made my way to Italy where I was joined by a friend. After a few days [...]

The Turn to Transcendence

By |2026-04-07T20:57:41-05:00April 7th, 2026|Categories: Books, Christianity, Culture, Easter, Timeless Essays, Wyoming Catholic College|

Glenn W. Olsen’s "The Turn to Transcendence" is a must-read for us who desire to topple the dictatorship of relativism and culture of death, and replace it with the only alternative: a civilization of love turned to the Face of Transcendence revealed in Jesus Christ. The Turn to Transcendence: The Role of Religion in the [...]

St. Irenaeus & the Redemption of All Things

By |2026-04-07T12:57:10-05:00April 6th, 2026|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Easter, Michael De Sapio, Senior Contributors, Theology|

Irenaeus’s doctrine of divine pedagogy has definite application to the intellectual and spiritual life: It sets the tone for a lifestyle of quiet, patient growth in knowledge, through prayer and learning at the feet of the Lord. “Behold, I make all things new.” (Revelation 21:5) St. Irenaeus of Lyons is one of the major Christian [...]

Good Words on a Good Friday

By |2026-04-02T19:09:08-05:00April 2nd, 2026|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Easter, Joseph Haydn, Timeless Essays|

The “Seven Last Words of Christ” can seen as the verbal expression of an interior reality: namely, the mind of Christ, as formed according to a deeply ingrained, habitual life practice of living mindfully according to the Lord’s Prayer. Holy Week is an especially fruitful time for prayerful meditation. There are many liturgical events at [...]

“Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice”: Music for Holy Week

By |2026-04-02T08:33:22-05:00March 30th, 2026|Categories: Audio/Video, Catholicism, Christianity, Dwight Longenecker, Holy Week, Lent, Music, Senior Contributors|

My own continued admiration of Gerald Finzi’s majestic and moving anthem, "Lo, The Full, Final Sacrifice," lies not only in the masterful blend of music and words, but also in the confluence of so many personal memories that touch and move me. Sometimes a piece of music or art brings different aspects of one’s life [...]

Edmund Burke on Manners

By |2026-03-27T20:09:46-05:00March 27th, 2026|Categories: Civil Society, Culture, Edmund Burke, Ian Crowe, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Timeless Essays|Tags: , |

It took Edmund Burke a very little time to decide that French Revolutionary philosophy posed a massive threat to civilization and social stability throughout Europe. By the end of his life, eight years after the storming of the Bastille, his fears of Jacobin contagion had led him to ask for a secret grave, removed from [...]

Faith and Redeeming the Time

By |2026-03-26T15:10:13-05:00March 26th, 2026|Categories: Barbara J. Elliott, Community, Culture, Film, Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot, Timeless Essays|

If the people who profess belief in God were to actually live with intentionality—in their business decisions, in their classrooms, in their television broadcasts and movie scripts, in their community organizations, and in their art—together we would transform the culture. One advantage I have in this conversation is that the Elliott household continues the discussion [...]

Clara Wieck, the “Other” Schumann

By |2026-03-12T17:52:59-05:00March 12th, 2026|Categories: Audio/Video, Music|

It seems we can all use a little extra cheer in life these days, so what fun to get other people interested in and excited about Clara Wieck Schumann: child prodigy, piano virtuoso, mother of eight, wife and partner to the better-known Robert Schumann. The only reason I chanced upon Clara Schumann’s compositions was a [...]

Living an Integrated Life

By |2026-03-11T20:49:35-05:00March 11th, 2026|Categories: Catholic Culture Series, Catholicism, Christianity, Civil Society, Culture, Government|

None of us wants a theocracy, nor do we wish to have a totally secularized order. But both secular and sacred are to be joined in some way, the only question being how and to what extent. Have we still got a Christian consensus around which Americans of every possible persuasion can rally round? A public [...]

The Christian Humanists Challenge the Machine

By |2026-03-11T20:03:46-05:00March 11th, 2026|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Catholicism, Christendom, Christian Humanism, Christianity, Culture, Grace, Modernity, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

Only a people who accepts a moral foundation of its culture, a protection of its property, the decentralization of power, and a “national humility” will in the long run survive. Once a people forgets its purpose, it will fall into decadence. The nineteenth century witnessed the flourishing of progressivist thought: in social relations, political relations, [...]

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