The real promise of “digital discipleship” should not prevent Christians from engaging in honest conversations about the harms of technology, especially to children.

In this time when so much seems to be falling apart, the writer/philosopher/farmer Michael Martin is reimagining and even building anew.

David Tracy's two-columns collection of previously published essays present a compelling argument for the value of theology in today's troubled world.

A longtime historian of Los Angeles explores and deconstructs the mythical city of boosters, developers and "perpetual reinvention."

Tolkien's fiction reminds us that power cannot be controlled; it enslaves you. To act freely is to acknowledge your limits, to see the journey as a long road that includes dozens of future elections, and to fight against the temptation for power.

Can the humanities help us find intellectual, emotional and spiritual shelter during our present time of crises?

A poet reflects in the 2019 George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize essay.

Abstraction is fundamentally inhuman, even anti-human.

Rather than framing moral philosophy as just another form of epistemology (how can we know what to do?), Iris Murdoch was asking a more classical question: “How can we make ourselves morally better?” she asks. “These are the questions the philosopher should try to answer.”

War experience, and trauma more generally, can be an assault not only on one’s physical sense of safety, but on one’s social, moral, and spiritual conception of the world.