May 11, 2016

How does this make you feel? is not a question which gets much respect within most classical Christian circles, and The Abolition of Man might have something to do with this. Lewis is critical of educators who reduce all truth to a matter of feeling. In the aforementioned treatise on education, Lewis famously dismisses the […]

We might not expect the man who shaped Hell for the Western imagination to be capable of profound clemency, but Dante is full of surprises. In Canto V of the Purgatorio, the ream of the unshriven, Dante encounters Buonconte, a man who lived a vicious life but finally shed “one little tear” over the name