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 “The Good Samaritan” by Jan Scorel, 1537 (photo: Alamy)
Arts & CultureIdeas
Michial Farmer
Abstraction is fundamentally inhuman, even anti-human.
Arts & CultureTheater
Meghan J. Clark
Written in the 1930s, George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” has always been controversial.
Arts & CultureBooks
E. M. Hill
‘This is My Body,’ by Cameron Dezen Hammon, is a warning about how a feminist can fall prey to and rationalize the pervasiveness of misogyny, despite his or her best intentions.
In Wim Wenders’s film “Wings of Desire,” the protagonist, an angel named Damiel (Bruno Ganz), is tired of spending eternity as a pure spirit (photo: Alamy).
Arts & CultureIdeas
Margaret Tucker
In ‘Wings of Desire,’ Damiel is tired of pretense, tired of spending eternity as a pure spirit.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jon M. Sweeney
The natural world is Wendell Berry’s primary teacher: its rhythms, its largesse, its mysteries.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jack Downey
As Cummings notes, our future saints, some of whom have already passed beyond the veil, will disclose to us as much about ourselves and our church as they will about their own heroic virtue.