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August 2014

August 28, 2014

Recovering Place

Why Place Matters edited by Wilfred McClay and Ted McAllister As a Southern man living...

August 26, 2014

A Place for Liturgy

In his book Word and Church Anglican theologian John Webster writes, "At its best… attention...

August 24, 2014

Apocalypse Now and Then: America, Rome, and The City of God

The late Fred Phelps made his Westboro Baptist Church famous by being as outrageously offensive...

August 21, 2014

Seeing Through Jazz, Darkly

Being a Christian artist—or an artist who happens to be Christian, or however you want...

August 18, 2014

The Curse of Calling and the Myth of Creativity

The word “calling” has the power to elicit eyerolls and sighs – a cliché of...

August 12, 2014

Divergent’s Big Missed Chance

What would happen if a group of people dedicated themselves to the pursuit of a...

August 11, 2014

Timeless Moments: Memory, Time, and Eternity in T.S. Eliot and Wong Kar Wai

This is the use of memory: For liberation - not less of love but expanding...

August 06, 2014

The Unprepared-For Death Is Not Worth Dying

The traditional Litany of Saints ends with a series of petitions to God that he...

August 04, 2014

The Way, It’s True, Is a Life

A recent pilgrim recounts some of his impressions coming home from walking 1,000 miles on...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

The Culture We Live in

A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definative Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic...

July 16, 2014

This Is What We Do, Panel Edition

This past Saturday Fare Forward held a panel discussion in Washington, DC on Will Seath's article...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Happy Feast of St. John the Baptist

In the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches today is the Feast of the Nativity of...

February 2014

February 21, 2014

Learning to Watch Movies

There’s a scene in the 2010 film Of Gods and Men in which a group...

February 12, 2014

Jesus and the Art of Presence

A poignant article rippled through my social media sphere three weeks ago. In "The Art...

January 2014

January 11, 2014

Death, Diversions, and the Credo

In the face of death, Tocqueville and Pascal saw two paths toward despair. Pope Benedict XVI offers...

December 2013

December 09, 2013

Privilege, Repentance, Forgiveness

Identifying privilege offers insight into grace and allows us to take responsibility for both our own responses and...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

On Yeezus and Jesus

My morning devotional the day of the Kanye West concert came from the eleventh...

October 2013

October 18, 2013

The Plough and the Sails

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were part of the Inklings, a small circle of...

October 17, 2013

Fantasy Worldviews: From Middle Earth to Westeros

“The battle of good and evil is a great subject for any book and...

October 16, 2013

The Wonderment of Grace

A narrow understanding of faith very readily turns to bitterness and coerciveness. There is...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Charles Murray, Dorothy Day, and Embedded Journalism

One of the things we try to do with Fare Forward is find, learn from,...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Latin in the Summer, or Learning to be Attentive

I am twenty-three years old, and I am spending my summer taking Intermediate Latin at...

July 17, 2013

Two Responses to Andy Crouch on Institutions

Editor's Note: As regular blog readers will have seen yesterday, a big topic at the...

June 2013

June 10, 2013

Literature and the Moral Life

During a class discussion in college, I recall one of my English professors off-handedly commenting,...

June 04, 2013

On Gratitude and the Essayification of Life

“Tabbing” is what I call my daily practice of scrolling through emails, Facebook, and Twitter,...

June 01, 2013

The Bonobo and The Creator

Biologist Frans de Waal is convinced we've gotten it all wrong: morality does not come...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

On the Use of Arguments in Theology

I am currently working through Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, commenting on one article each day. Given the...

May 21, 2013

Worldliness and Anxiety

Walking across Dartmouth’s campus recently I overheard one student say to another: “Hey – you...

May 14, 2013

What Do We Do When We Run Out of Empathy?

In a recent New Yorker article “The Case Against Empathy,” Paul Bloom warns us against...

May 13, 2013

Friendship, Gender, and Literature

“What we need is… better art and better stories—better fictional worlds, by which I mean...