A forgotten centenary.
Blessing of Unicorns: Snow, secularist violence, winter poetry, Commonplace launch, and the love of family reading
One Unicorn could be just a figment of your imagination. Herd several together, and you get a Blessing of Unicorns upon your day.
Roundup: reviews of Musa al-Gharbi’s ‘We Have Never Been Woke’
We may yet run a review at Current, but for the moment, a roundup of representative coverage elsewhere.
Blessing of Unicorns: home, neighborhood, AI, and more
This week’s Unicorns consider the love of home, kids doing chores in the neighborhood, the anti-human and anti-God arrogance of AI, and a lore more!
Right coding: who owns Homer anyway?
The right coding of Homer or the classics is really not helpful for anyone.
Enrollment is up for 1 in 5 evangelical colleges and universities: Christianity Today’s report last week
Mission matters.
Blessing of Unicorns: the first of 2025!
Jimmy Carter tributes, reflection questions for recapping last year and planning for this new year, the writing life, John Wilson’s list of favorite nonfiction books of 2024, intensive parenting, family policy, and a response to ProPublica’s irresponsible blaming of pregnant women’s deaths on abortion bans.
Ideas in Progress interview: Agnes Howard on family history and the experiences of everyday life
Few topics seem as appropriate for discussing at the very beginning of a new year as family–the people who shape us and the people whom we shape in turn. And so, in this first Ideas in Progress interview of 2025, […]
Why, hello there, 2025!
This is a place for ideas.
The story of 2024 in Current features
Documenting the year that is coming to an end through Current essays.
My children’s favorite book of 2024 is…
Cheeky penguins win the day–and year.
Interview: Robert Edwards on John Chrysostom’s Consolation to Stagirius
What one Church Father’s advice to a suffering monk can teach us now.
Our favorite essays of 2024 from other little magazines
More of our favorite things!
Some of our favorite things II: Current writers and editors reflect on 2024
The beauty that made 2024 for us
Interview: Timothy Larsen on Twelve Classic Christmas Stories
Timothy Larsen brings (more) Christmas (books) cheer!
Interview: David Anthony Basham on Paul, the Temple, and Building a Metaphor
Like Jesus, everyone has their “Paul.”
“The After Virtue cabinet”
“Who will watch the watchmen themselves?”
2024 in 25 Current book reviews
What’s the measure of this year? A story in Current book reviews.
Blessing of Unicorns: education, hope, Gladiator II, and homemakers
One Unicorn could be just a figment of your imagination. Herd several together, and you get a Blessing of Unicorns upon your day. This week’s Unicorns consider education, Byung-Chul Han on hope, historical inaccuracies of the new Gladiator film (I’m […]
Julie Durbin invites students to “A Way of Pilgrimage in the World.”
What students need to learn is more than just information—a what. What they need is a how and with whom—a way of pilgrimage in the world.