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The Erotic Case for God February 14, 2025
Imagine you meet a young woman who believes that only fools fall in love. Here’s her argument: There’s simply no way to prove that falling in love is a good idea, and there’s no way to know that a particular human is more worth dedicating yourself to...
Classic Romance Novels: A Starter Pack February 07, 2025
Every now and again some starry-eyed optimist tries to craft an all-time best-of romance canon, and the gods laugh and make popcorn for the ensuing discourse fiasco. Romance is a slippery genre — in so many ways — and frequently there’s a seismic shi...
How Intellectuals Found God December 31, 2024
In the beginning, Matthew Crawford believed in nothing.“The question of God wasn’t even on the radar,” the best-selling author told me.He was 8 when his parents split, and he followed his mother to a Hindu ashram in Oakland, California. There were tr...
A Space Novel for Earth Lovers December 17, 2024
I’ve never been a space guy. Earth, like Robert Frost said, seems to be “the right place for love.” While I appreciate the ambition of those of us who want to travel to Mars, I’m not attracted to the idea because I’m not desperately in love with the ...
The Poet Is Present December 17, 2024
Poets have accumulated many labels throughout history. Some are not so flattering—Plato saw them as liars and demanded their exile from his precious utopia. Others glimpse, in the role of the poet, something closer to the sacred: Emerson called them ...
Jordan Peterson’s Rambling, Hectoring, Mad New Book December 11, 2024
The last time I reviewed a book by Jordan Peterson, a cleverly edited excerpt of my negative opinion (I described it as “bonkers”) appeared on the cover of the paperback edition, giving readers the misleading impression that I had endorsed it. So thi...
‘Mary’: A Beautiful, Realistic Film about the Blessed Mother December 05, 2024
“You get it.”That’s the message I got a couple of months ago from D. J. Caruso, the acclaimed director of 2007’s Disturbia, and of the new Netflix film Mary. I had heard that Caruso was doing a movie about Mary, and sent him a piece I wrote earlier t...
People Are Trying Mushrooms and Meeting God August 19, 2024
The first time Stephanie Brinkerhoff tried psilocybin, she was a Mormon mother of three and desperate for help. She was struggling with migraines and chronic fatigue, and the antidepressants she had been on for years weren’t working, she felt. After ...
Rebuilding: New Tech, Old Principles August 19, 2024
Last month the Historic Moravian District of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The district retains pre-Revolutionary War buildings erected by Moravian settlers and a Moravian “God’s Acre” cemetery from that era. Vi...
In Concert With the Transcendent August 15, 2024
Growing up, religion was more a matter of culture than faith for my family. My true spiritual formation was shaped by celebrity culture. My aunt dutifully took up my father’s request to be my godmother (despite rarely attending church), but her daugh...
Ladies in Leotards August 13, 2024
Like so many other people, I tuned in to watch the Paris 2024 Olympics’ Women’s Artistic Gymnastics a couple of weeks ago. I’ve seen women’s gymnastics before—but I’ve never watched it having just finished teaching an intensive university course on f...
The Lost Arts August 09, 2024
There were both too many metal guitarists for a stately ceremony on the Seine, and yet, too few. When the broadcast cut to a wide shot of the Conciergerie, it revealed nothing, nothing—a vast expanse of beige wall with a few ant-like figures crawling...
A Jolt from the Slumber of the Self August 08, 2024
Throughout his long career in film, director Werner Herzog has escaped aesthetic categorization. In his more than 70 films, Herzog consistently looks outward, examining people, animals, and distant places. In his new memoir, Every Man for Himself and...
The Tinkerer’s Box of Dreams August 02, 2024
Did you ever have a box of cords in your house when you grew up? You know what I’m talking about: it was some plastic bin of full of cables and connectors for old gadgets, most of which you probably hadn’t seen in a while — but, in the event one of t...
