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Modern Man’s Problem: Disenchantment or Desecration? A Review of Carl Trueman’s The Desecration of Man
If desecration is the pervasive problem our day, then nothing less than consecration is the answer.
Running Toward A New Life
This is a book for every young man who has ever hit a crisis of meaning or purpose, despite possessing boatloads of knowledge.
The Bell Above the Door
What if instead of nuclear power plants and radioactive waste to dispose of we just consumed less electricity?
Learning to Unknow: On James K.A. Smith’s Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark
By embracing the discomfort of unknowing, we come into a more profound awareness of love in all its splendor.
The Cult of Efficiency and the Technological Society
Modernity lays at your feet hundreds if not thousands of tools to make our lives cleaner, smoother, and more efficient.
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Baseball, Gardening, and the Metaverse
It’s been a rough week for those committed to Wendell Berry’s Terrapin Theory of Technology.
Life Could Be So Very Fine: Songs About Happiness
We’re listening to songs about happiness this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and trying to find a way to separate songs about happiness from songs about being in…
Meatpackers, Barnes & Noble, and Wittgenstein
Arthur Brooks draws on Eitan Hersh and others to remind people that following politics like it’s entertainment erodes civic virtue.
Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon: Songs of Laurel Canyon
In honor of my wife’s birthday, we’re listening to songs from her favorite musical scene: Laurel Canyon. Send your song suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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Living in Ælfric’s Orchard
We should remind ourselves of our eternal home by making an image of it, not as an idol but as an icon.
Breakfast with Brother Dave: The Blessing of Intergenerational Friendship
God has gifted me with great friendships, but my friendship with Dave and others like him has uniquely oriented my life.
Why the Local Church Should Be Your Village
We’ve tried to make the village more hospitable to our hyper-individualistic sensibilities by vastly expanding it.
The Loneliness of Russia’s First Poet: Pushkin
Pushkin offered not only a sense of freedom but also examined it from the sharpest moral angles.
The Paradox of Welcome: Restoring the Intergenerational Welcome of the Church
In the communities I’ve observed, there’s a new hesitation over how to respond to infants.
Starbucks with Chinese Characteristics
China has gone through staggering economic growth and urbanization in the past few decades, and Starbucks has been along for the ride.
The Glories of Small Towns
Small towns not only engender local and national patriotism, but they also create the conditions for the arts to flourish.
When Yellowstone Became A Place
From the beginning of its own story, the landscape called Yellowstone has been a place.
All the Stars We Never See
The greater our creations have become, the more hollow they appear in contrast to what was here before us.
Haunted by Waters: A River Runs Through It at Fifty
We are ready to give ourselves. And yet we find that we do not know what part of ourselves to offer—or worse, that the part we have to give is not wanted.
Welcoming the Shadow Brother
One recent morning I realized something I should have noticed years ago, namely that for much of my life the extrovert in me has been selling out the introvert
An Affirmative Case for Christian Patriotism: A review of Daniel Darling’s In Defense of Christian Patriotism
A sense of biblically justified disavowal of one’s polity was not the norm in Christianity generally, and American Christianity specifically.
From the Archive
From the Editor–Local Culture 4.1: The Civil Dissent Issue
Think not, then, of the ubiquitous screens and hideous architecture and suburban metastasis and microwave dinners. Think rather of Eric Voegelin’s famous quip—Voegelin, who said that “no one is obliged…
Spiritual Secession: A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth
" None of your readers need me to tell them that the useful work is practical, particular, small and careful: to get away from screens as much as we can, get…
Tanya Berry’s Faithful Art
Women like Tanya bring artistry and honor to everything they touch: the homes they inhabit, the land they steward, the children they raise. These photographs are testimony to the clear,…
Can There be a National Conservatism?
Here’s the irony: a growing number of conservatives realize that it will require the assistance of the State to correct many of the problems that have been created by the…
Cheese Should Be Dangerous
The cheese crafted here came about as a byproduct of a larger whole, the natural dividend of a complete way of life, and this is the foundation of the best…