What Noble Gossamers We Weave: Art, Religion, and The Coen Brothers
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Mark Thomas ponders the anomalous fictions of the Coen Brothers' most religious films.
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The Animal and the Angel: Two Anti-Love Stories
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Two dystopian visions explore current fallacies about human love in a culture where flesh and spirit fail to connect.
The Unconquerable Goodness of Fairytale: Comparing *Maleficent* and *Cinderella*
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It is intriguing that in a world which celebrates its obliteration of the “superstitious” and “supernatural” in support…
ArteFact: The Gift of Human Creativity
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An Introduction to the ArteFact page.
The Gift of Redemption: Marilynne Robinson Celebrates Nuptial Love
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The luminous novel Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, takes the form of a book-length epistle from a…
The Gift of Courage: Vocation from the Inside
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It is not easy to convey the notion of vocation in a secular world. Modern men and women tend to think of life as…
The Gift of Tears: The Tragedy of Capote and Seymour Hoffman
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Tears are a gift. So say masters of the Christian mystical tradition like Ignatius of Loyola. To be moved by the…
The Gift of Humanity: Time Like a River
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By the time the massive Three Gorges Dam was nearing its completion in the mid-2000’s, whole towns and villages had…
The Gift of Tolerance: Harper Lee Returns
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Earlier this year the literary world was rocked by the news that an old manuscript by Harper Lee, author of To Kill a…
The Gift of Wonder: The Vision of Terrence Malick
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Two works written and directed by one of the most profound living film-makers were recently released within two years:…