The Imaginative Conservative

The truth is not simply that all that is good, true and beautiful comes from heaven but that all goodness, truth and beauty points to heaven.

Edmund Burke’s “gambit”—his contribution to the long conversation with posterity—has endured.

Saint Therese’s spirituality is grounded firmly in the truth that God’s love comes before anything else in our lives.

People sell the family silver today because they no longer have the traditions and uses that gave it meaning.

“The Magic Flute” has been called Mozart’s “Masonic opera,” and so it is.

Whatever hells have been loosed upon the world, here in America and abroad, never forget that our ancestors, even pagan ones, called us to love and cherish that which is best.

However one solves the mysterious Sword of Michael, it is a reminder to us in our hi-tech age that our ancestors had perhaps more technologies than our iPhones have dreamt of.

Those who think that Christianity is just about propositional assent, or about sentimental emotivism, have already in some way made an idol.

According to Dorothy Sayers, classical education is not as much an orthodox literary corpus as it is a mindset and a methodology.

The ‘God question’ grips every person inescapably, for none so much, ironically, as the proclaimed atheist.

The very essence of the teaching of Jesus Christ is that God is love, and his love was so embodied in his own mystical body on the first Pentecost that it could draw up into itself all who are open to receive it.

Here are the ten qualities to notice about the next poem you read.

Storytelling is an excellent exercise for cultivating the imagination especially, not just the powers of the intellect.

My greatest concern as a teacher for more than thirty years was my students’ inability or unwillingness to read.

One of the fundamental mistakes of the Pharisees is the vice of self-deception, the sin of being impostors to themselves.