Music and the Education of the Christian Soul

By |2020-07-19T15:18:46-05:00August 18th, 2019|Categories: Antonio Vivaldi, Beauty, Christianity, Culture, Happiness, Heaven, Music, Timeless Essays|

In a world ringing with noise and suffused with the more or less artful idolizing of passions divorced from objective goods, where are we to find melodies capable of penetrating our hardened hearts with spiritual truths? In Plato’s Republic, Socrates leads a group of ambitious young Athenians on a search for the best way of [...]

A Postcard From Venice

By |2019-11-21T11:47:42-06:00February 20th, 2019|Categories: Culture, Europe, Happiness, Heaven, Joseph Mussomeli, Love, Senior Contributors|

I had always thought it nonsense to believe in love at first sight. But that sophomoric conceit sank with that setting sun over the Venetian church spires that summer day in 1973. And with it was washed away that companion conceit that falling in love was something that could only happen between two humans… The [...]

Christopher Dawson and the Nature of Progress

By |2019-02-04T22:38:27-06:00January 28th, 2019|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Christian Humanism, Christopher Dawson, Christopher Dawson Series by Bradley Birzer, Heaven, History, Progressivism, Senior Contributors|

An understanding of progress and its adherents was not just of academic curiosity to Christopher Dawson. It was central to understanding the good life and preventing those who misunderstood history from gaining control and imposing the will of man upon the creation of God… “What has happened will happen again, and what has been done [...]

Music and the Education of the Christian Soul

By |2023-07-27T22:41:56-05:00January 5th, 2019|Categories: Antonio Vivaldi, Audio/Video, Beauty, Christianity, Culture, Happiness, Heaven, Mother of God, Music, Sainthood|

In a world ringing with noise and suffused with the more or less artful idolizing of passions divorced from objective goods, where are we to find melodies capable of penetrating our hardened hearts with spiritual truths? In Plato’s Republic, Socrates leads a group of ambitious young Athenians on a search for the best way of [...]

God’s Gamble: Gethsemane, Free Will, & the Fate of Man

By |2023-11-25T12:38:08-06:00November 24th, 2018|Categories: Books, Christianity, Dwight Longenecker, Heaven, Rene Girard, Senior Contributors, Theology|

Did God gamble everything in the Garden of Gethsemane, the second Adam facing a real, existential, and eternal choice of going through with the Father’s will or backing away from it? God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of  Crucified Love, by Gil Bailie (384 pages, Angelico Press, 2016) Few thinkers have stormed the post modern world [...]

Horror and Eternity: Russell Kirk’s Ghostly Tales

By |2020-10-18T13:12:43-05:00October 25th, 2018|Categories: Ancestral Shadows, Books, Film, Heaven, Mystery, Russell Kirk|

Russell Kirk’s horror stories are fundamentally conservative, insinuating a chain of being that connects the living and the dead, reminding us of our duty and obligations to the past. They challenge us by piercing our day-to-day sense of the temporal with bright flashes of eternal order. And they lay upon us the heavy but joyous [...]

Outside is the Night Infernal

By |2019-09-28T09:50:30-05:00June 1st, 2016|Categories: Catholicism, Heaven, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Pearce, Religion, StAR|

One thing in this world is different from all other. It has a personality and a force. It is recognised, and (when recognised) most violently loved or hated.  It is the Catholic Church. Within that household the human spirit has roof and hearth. Outside it, is the Night. —Essays of a Catholic by Hilaire Belloc (1931). [...]

John F. Kennedy & C. S. Lewis: Where Are They Now?

By |2020-11-21T12:24:00-06:00March 17th, 2016|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, Christianity, Death, Heaven, History, Joseph Pearce|

It is interesting to ponder how the reputations of John F. Kennedy and C. S. Lewis have fared. How have they weathered the inexorable passage of time? And where are they now: in Heaven or Hell? At 5:30pm (UK Time) on November 22, 1963, C.S. Lewis collapsed in his home in Oxford after a long [...]

“Auguries of Innocence”

By |2020-03-18T16:04:44-05:00March 6th, 2016|Categories: Heaven, Poetry|

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage A Dove house filld with Doves & Pigeons Shudders Hell thr' all its [...]

God or Mammon: Choosing Christ in a World in Crisis

By |2019-09-28T09:50:56-05:00October 15th, 2015|Categories: Christianity, Culture, Happiness, Heaven, Joseph Pearce, StAR|

No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. – Matthew 6:24 One of the biggest and most dangerous temptations that Christians face is the addiction to comfort. Our desire for comfort and [...]

“Holy Sorrow”

By |2020-11-19T11:40:17-06:00February 28th, 2015|Categories: Heaven, Poetry|

When after sleeping in the day I wake And find my parents are not there I grieve The time that passes by like stars above Whose movement is the movement of the earth When at the turning of the year just like The turning of the leaves when nights draw in And thoughts of frost [...]

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