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What on earth, you might be thinking, is a journalist doing talking about poetry? Poets have a great deal to teach journ...
06/25/2026

What on earth, you might be thinking, is a journalist doing talking about poetry? Poets have a great deal to teach journalists about language, but what might a journalist have to say to poets?
--Kenneth Woodward

Kenneth L. Woodward on verse. 

Her love exemplifies a Christian heroism, a love that is difficult if not impossible to emulate. It is a heroism that is...
06/25/2026

Her love exemplifies a Christian heroism, a love that is difficult if not impossible to emulate. It is a heroism that is too often overlooked in our age, given the real risks of victim blaming.
--Anna Moreland

Anna Moreland on loving enemies.

Graham Greene became a Catholic because of a pedantic girl. ...--Melanie McDonagh
06/24/2026

Graham Greene became a Catholic because of a pedantic girl. ...
--Melanie McDonagh

Melanie McDonagh on literary converts.

What is more needed today, however, is an infusion of the poetic element into the experience of Christian community, to ...
06/24/2026

What is more needed today, however, is an infusion of the poetic element into the experience of Christian community, to heal, strengthen, uplift, and unite it more deeply in the mystery of the Word-Made-Flesh.
--Ann Astell

Ann Astell on the literary craft.

That is to say—there are times when, as poets, it becomes quite clear that we are channeling, communing with, receiving ...
06/24/2026

That is to say—there are times when, as poets, it becomes quite clear that we are channeling, communing with, receiving something beyond ourselves.
--Coburn Dolloff

Coburn Dolloff on the miraculous. 

Erich Przywara then provides the necessary correction, insisting that the relation between God and creature remains asym...
06/24/2026

Erich Przywara then provides the necessary correction, insisting that the relation between God and creature remains asymmetrical and non-reciprocal even at the height of intimacy, in Deo semper maior, “in God, ever greater.”
--Johan Erlandsson-Diaz

Johan Erlandsson-Diaz on Blondel, Przywara, and Rilke.

I suggest that a Christian sensibility about war must prefer a very strict and rigorous interpretation of the criterion ...
06/24/2026

I suggest that a Christian sensibility about war must prefer a very strict and rigorous interpretation of the criterion of proportionality, which on many occasions should give leaders pause for thought, even if military action appears just on all other counts.
--Michael Wee

Why Just War Theory Isn't Enough | Church Life Journal | University of Notre Dame (https://hubs.la/Q04mh6l-0)

Michael Wee on a theology of peace.

Ukraine no longer dominates media headlines, certainly at least not every day; and I have met people here in America and...
06/24/2026

Ukraine no longer dominates media headlines, certainly at least not every day; and I have met people here in America and other countries of the world who were surprised to hear about this war again: is it still such a huge problem?
--Yury Avvakumov

Yury Avvakumov on dignity and freedom.

The unspeakable experience needs the unspeakable words. As C.S. Lewis wrote, “Every war is a monument to an unanswered p...
06/24/2026

The unspeakable experience needs the unspeakable words. As C.S. Lewis wrote, “Every war is a monument to an unanswered prayer.”
--Yuliia Vintoniv

Yuliia Vintoniv on war poetry.

Over the last few decades, the likely balance of suffering in any war has changed. More than ever, military conflicts ar...
06/24/2026

Over the last few decades, the likely balance of suffering in any war has changed. More than ever, military conflicts are fought, won and lost through the creation of misery for non-combatants.
--Edward Hadas & Frank Ledwidge

Hadas and Ledwidge on killing civilians.

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