Spirituality
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Between Spirituality and Literature March 06, 2025
Matthew Wickman’s Life to the Whole Being: The Spiritual Memoir of a Literature Professor is a remarkable book. On one level, it is a nuanced study of the relationship between spirituality and literature. It discusses inspiration and the limits of te...
Technologies of Transcendence November 14, 2024
The technological breakthroughs and scientific megaprojects of the last century have all contained a religious or spiritual dimension, and each envisioned a future that was incommensurable with the present. The Manhattan Project introduced a novel an...
The Exploitation of Compassion November 08, 2024
For a book about the perils of empathy’s excesses, Allie Beth Stuckey’s newly released Toxic Empathy (2024) is rife with respect for empathy itself.Christian compassion, Stuckey acknowledges, is a positive force in our daily lives. When we see a frie...
Auden’s Island November 06, 2024
When, on January 19, 1939, W.H. Auden boarded at Southampton a ship bound for New York City, he could not have known that he would never live in England again. But some months earlier, he had told his friend Christopher Isherwood that he wanted to se...
