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Jason M. Baxter is the director for the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine College. He is a speaker and author of eight books, including A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Comedy, a new translation of Dante's Comedy, and most recently Why Literature Still Matters. You can find his popular writing on his Substack, Beauty Matters.
Dante and Virgil at the gates of purgatory, and the Proud carrying heavy stones, in an illustration of Canto IX of Dante’s "Purgatorio" (photo : CNS photo/Priamo della Quercia, British Library via The Public Domain Review)
Arts & CultureBooks
Jason M. Baxter
What is it about Dante that has made him not just immortal, but urgent and modern?
FaithFaith in Focus
Jason M. Baxter
St. Francis’ poverty was not cold and brutal but actually, in a way, worldly. It was a poverty that anyone today searching for what is real and authentic might relate to.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Jason M. Baxter
What did Notre-Dame mean? What did it feel like to step into it in the Middle Ages?