Augustine, Confessions - 11.28.37 But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not? or how that past increased, whic...

As early as the third millennium B.C., Mesopotamian scribes began to catalogue the clay tablets in their collections. For ease of reference,...

For possible future reference, here's a link to a theologian's review of an atheistic scientist's book about God. The scientist...

Some images of the Terrestrial Paradise by Flaxman, Blake, Dore and Botticelli are here . Some commentary is here . All comes from the Unive...

Alone he wandered, lost Eurydice Lamenting, and the gifts of Dis ungiven. Scorned by which tribute the Ciconian dames, Amid their awful Bacc...

Detail from the Arch of Titus showing his triumph after the Sack of Jerusalem in 78 . The Order of the Triumphal Progression The ...

Shaw points us to another excellent piece from the New Yorker , in which James Wood reviews Robert Alter's new translation of the Psalm...

With Canto 28, Dante is no longer being guided by Virgil; he's at liberty to explore the foresta at the top of the mountain. After the ...

The college handbook forbids students to embrace or promote “doctrinal errors” from the 4th through the 21st centuries, “such as Arianism, S...

As we look at the three dreams of the pilgrim (cantos 9, 19, 27), we might want to consider if, and how, they address the status of the pilg...

Click to hear a song of Bernart's: When I see the lark beat his wings for joy against the sun's ray, until he forgets to f...

"If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, to pl...