Disrespect for motherhood as a calling is prevalent in our society and is a symptom of a larger disregard for human life and dignity.
A Blessing of Unicorns: 01/20/2024
This week’s Unicorns are all about reading, literature, and education.
Alienated America for Trump? Timothy Carney on 2016 and 2024
Tim Carney’s Alienated America explained the support for Trump in particular counties in 2016. Does this analysis still hold for 2024?
Where have all the grownups gone? Reflections on Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead is a reminder that kids can’t just raise themselves.
Blessing of Unicorns: weekly roundup for 01/13/2024
This week’s unicorns are an eclectic bunch–ranging from valuing children and the homeless to the poetry of forgiveness, parental rights, MLK Jr., Alexander Hamilton’s pocket pistols, and Cultural Christians.
Adjunctify U
Valuing people and investing in them is not just the morally right thing to do. It’s also good business. Even in academia.
Reflections on Mike Pence’s new book, Go Home for Dinner
Mike Pence’s new book prompts reflections on motives. How we tell our stories matters, but so does why we tell them.
The first Blessing of Unicorns of 2024!
The Unicorn roundups are back! In this first roundup of the year, reads on work and theology, Dostoevsky, natural rights of women, and books some writers dream of writing.
A New Year’s resolution to support the future of evangelical scholarship: read more women!
I have an easy New Year’s resolution for you, if you would like to support the future of evangelical (and, really, Christian) scholarship: read more women.
Maybe the Hallmark Channel is right
There is much glory in the small things, and there is abundant joy in the present. Do you see it?
2023: Most popular reads of the year at The Arena blog
In the spirit of end-of-year roundups, here are the most popular three posts of the year from each of the Arena’s regular contributors.
2023: The measure of a year
By creating personalized lists for measuring or summing up each waning year, we get to place our own stories—and those of our families—into history’s arc.
A library for joy, sorrow, and reflection: 2023 with Current book reviews
A summary of the year with Current book reviews. Find our top 23 reviews for ’23, and more.
The “After Virtue” university
The failure of university presidents to condemn antisemitism on their campuses is an example of the “After Virtue” university in action.
Final Blessing of Unicorns for 2023
Welcome to the final Blessing of Unicorns for 2023!
A Blessing of Unicorns: a weekly roundup
This week’s links roundup from the Arena blog at Current features the contest for Latin word of the year, Advent, and the many tragedies of war.
An ode to soup
There is nothing simple about soup, if we think about it.
Song/poem of the day: Snow Is Falling
We woke up to a thin layer of snow on the ground and more fluff gently falling from heavens above to the earth below. It makes the Russian-Jewish depths of my heart so nostalgically happy and reminds me of this […]
What’s wrong with cultural Christianity, anyway?
The problem with cultural Christianity is that it is more concerned with the kingdoms of this earth than with care of souls.
A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup
This roundup is extra-long and a good bit of it is about orienting our loves and our reading towards the good, the true, and the beautiful.