Rachel Woodham

In a two-part lecture on the medieval imagination, published in a collection called Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, C. S. Lewis invites students to take an hour-long starlit walk with the assumption that Ptolemaic astronomy is true. My experience of Circe’s national conference, A Contemplation of Worlds, was a similar exercise: taking a starlit […]

This Lent began more or less as usual: piling pajamaed children into the pew on Wednesday evening for the imposition of ashes. Like every year, one child rolled on the floor under the pew while another needed to use the bathroom during the prayers. A third suffered greatly after refusing to wear a coat. After