Suffering and the Passion
Through liturgy and devotion, we’re asked to enter deeply and intimately into the Passion of our Lord. Many in the Western Church are in the midst of Holy Week celebrations, focused on distinct...
View ArticleShining Glimpses of Mercy
“Christ must have been thinking of people like me,” Leah Libresco writes in her new book, Arriving at Amen, “who like and are fed by signs and stories, when he left his death visible on his resurrected...
View ArticleBenedict Option Reading Suggestions (Updated)
Tomorrow in DC several FFers and other interested parties will gather to discuss the “Benedict Option” and practical steps we can take in the next six months to a year to align our lives with this...
View ArticleThe Need for Neighbors
As New Urbanism builds up steam and city governments wrestle with how to best manage the magic pixie dust that millennials will hopefully sprinkle as they move into cities in greater numbers, both the...
View ArticleFare Forward Talks Christian Flourishing
Recently, Leah Libresco hosted a gathering in Washington, D.C. for Fare Forward writers and other interested parties on what has become known as “The Benedict Option.” Prior to the discussion, we...
View ArticleFreedom of Religion, Freedom for Religion
In his 2014 book, Understanding Liberal Democracy, the philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff distinguishes between two sorts of religious freedom: freedom of religion, and freedom for religion. Freedom of...
View ArticleDavid Brooks’ Road to Character
David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, a bestselling author, and the teacher of a few classes at Yale University covering the history of Western thought and moral philosophy. He has...
View ArticleDefining the Benedict Options
Advocates of the so-called “Benedict Option” have been criticized for a lack of details. What, exactly, is the Benedict Option? What would it look like in practice? This critique has been mostly well...
View ArticleGlory and Vainglory
In the introduction to her book Vainglory: The Forgotten Vice, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung says something about her early Christian sources that clearly applies to her own work as well. She writes,...
View ArticleBoth/And Philanthropy
Jeremy Beer, author of The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity and William MacAskill, author of Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make A Difference...
View ArticleReview: Confucius for Christians
To get the most out of Gregg A. Ten Elshof’s Confucius for Christians, it is important to be clear on what it is and what it is not. Despite the title’s protestation to the contrary, this is not a book...
View ArticleDetachment Parenting
My family didn’t decide to become Christmas-and-Easter Catholics. Like any transformation of regular habits, it was slow enough that there was no noticeable rupture—no moment when it felt like our...
View ArticleRaising a Molecular Family in an Atomic Age
If you’re a parent on social media or you’re friends with a parent on social media, you have probably seen Bunmi Laditan’s Facebook post from Mother’s Day: How To Be A Mom in 2017: Make sure your...
View ArticleCalled to Wholeness: The Church’s Response to the Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones’s 2015 book Dreamland revealed the story of whole communities in Appalachia completely taken over by addiction, and traced the trail of the heroin that was replacing opioid pain pills for...
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