Christianity
Easter, Lent, & Seeing a World in a Bucket of…
Just as Easter joy must animate the rigors of Lent, so too must the spirit of the desert and the…
Easter Wings ~ The Imaginative Conservative
George Herbert’s “Easter Wings” is a witty, surprising, and smart poem, which teaches a profound…
A Hymn to Easter ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Hymns are a major source of our imaginative conception of the Christian faith. A good hymn focuses…
Awake, O Sleeper! ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Blinding light surrounds me. My eyes, grown old from endlessly straining in vain for light, begin…
The Harrowing of Hell ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Christ descended into hell to deliver His loved ones from their exile. He came to reward those who,…
A Passion Oratorio for the 20th Century ~ The…
“Golgotha” is one of those works, and Frank Martin is one of those composers, about whom you want…
Not Just One Day of the Year ~ The Imaginative…
“Good Friday is not just one day of the year,” Fr. Richard John Neuhaus writes in “Death on a…
The First 12 Stations of the Cross ~ The Imaginative…
The Stations of the Cross, which form the core of my book Sounding the Seasons, are intended to be…
Fairy Tales and Holy Week ~ The Imaginative…
During this Holy Week, perhaps we can pray that the uncanny pull so many feel toward the ever-after…
From Passover to the Garden of Gethsemane ~ The…
I went with Peter to make the arrangements for the Passover supper. When we arrived in Jerusalem,…
