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1/2 I read but two articles over the weekend: 1) a terrific piece by Joshua Hren on Chris Beha's first novel, with bonus reflections from Bernanos on Balzac ("...he has not been down to the secret spring...where evil organizes from within") https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/behas-capacity-for-god-sophie-wilder-revisited/ @ubookman
2/2 and 2) this piece from R.R. Reno about resurgent interest in the Church Fathers, who took "all things captive to Christ", from speculative thought (Plato) to personal experience, understood through scripture. @firstthingsmag https://www.firstthings.com/article/2006/11/the-return-of-the-fathers
Reno's piece ends with the idea that spiritual disciplines and immersion in scripture will be the key to renewing Christian culture in the West: "St. Benedict’s Rule did far more than any battle or palace coup to shape the future of what was to become Europe."
4/2 RRR notes we are building a cathedral not a pop-up store: "None of us can reinvent a Christian literary imagination, political theory, scientific culture, or systematic theology on our own, because a Christian intellectual culture is a collective, multigenerational project."
