She who only looks inward will find only chaos, and she who looks outward with the eyes of critical judgment will find only flaws. But she who looks with the eyes of compassion and understanding will see complex souls, suffering and soaring, navigating life as best they can. — David Brooks
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The Man Born to Be King
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Kathryn Wehr on her new edition of The Man Born to Be King, the classic cycle of plays about Jesus's life.
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Laurus, Sacramentality and Enchantment
Laurus teaches us about bearing—each other’s burdens and our own, the weight of our sin, and the weight of glory.
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On Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Three Book Recommendations)
You may have heard the recent news of a major advance in practical machine learning and artificial intelligence. Released on November 30th by the San Francisco artificial intelligence company OpenAI, ChatGPT is being hailed as "quite simply, the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public." Here are some of our recommendations for reading up on the coming brave new world.
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O Taste and See (a Recommendation of 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅)
Whether or not reading old books can make us good, devouring this delicious new one surely can’t hurt, for in it we find a mode of reading that summons us to charity and honesty, and thus to humility, making us less assured of our own righteousness and less frantic at the apparent folly of our living neighbors.