In my last post, I looked at the positive ways Dante used the figure of Virgil, a pagan poet, in his Divine Comedy. Dante respected Virgil, and he recognized an...
The first great Christian poet—perhaps the only Christian poet famous enough invariably to be taught in high school English classes—is undoubtedly Dante. His Di...
I was spurred by the recent debate about baptism on the Fish Tank to think in more general terms about how to connect spiritual movements—repentance, salvation,...
I don’t like to watch mushy dramas. But during my mandatory quarantine period in Beijing this summer, I sat in my hotel for three days doing just that. Little d...
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, "Who then can be saved? Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but ...
This Saturday, February 27th, is the feast day of George Herbert, a poet and an Anglican priest who died in 1633, leaving behind him only one slim volume of poe...
“Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth: Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember...
This week, by a strange twist of fate, I have been completely immersed in ancient Greek literature. None of my classes are in the Classics department, and only ...
If there is a war between reason and imagination, the first volley was fired by Plato, who famously decreed that poets were to be thrown out of his ideal city. ...
“I am not Hermione Granger.”
As the end of shopping period draws near, I suspect that most Harvard students share this sentiment. Unlike the girl from Harry ...
