❤️ Love

• 🌉Learning with L’Arche

  The groundbreaking community centered on people with intellectual disabilities will examine how to foster humility and compassionate love

• ❤️A Scientific Approach to Living in Love

  Kindling new connections in the study of friendship, romance, and affection

• 🤔Does Self-Giving Love Require an Evolutionary World? Evolutionary Theodicy in Light of the Mystical Tradition

  A harsh natural world may be a necessary condition for the practice of sacrificial love

• 🎶New Years Rulin's

  Reflecting on Woody Guthrie’s poignant New Year’s resolutions reveals the bittersweet trade-offs of artistic pursuit. "SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY" serves as a powerful reminder of the familial sacrifices behind the music and culture he created.

• ⚖️Power and love

  Reflecting on the interplay of power and love, Martin Luther King, Jr. provides profound insights on justice and humanity.

• 📚Love and language

  Elif Batuman reflects on her journey through love, literature, and the unexpected choices we make.

• 🎨Calligraphy by Ahmed Shahnawaz Alam

  Exploring the timeless beauty of poetry through the artistry of calligraphy.

• 🎶The book of love is long and boring…

  A reflection on Peter Gabriel's upcoming album and its interpretation of beloved songs, highlighting the emotions they evoke.

• 🎨Jason Holly

  A captivating piece that blurs the lines between custom design and found object inspiration. "Love this. It made me slightly less happy once I saw that it was a custom designed-for-designers design rather than a found object. But only slightly."

• 🤝While the crisis lasted, people loved each other

  Quoting Dorothy Day.

• 🎄Attacking consumerism in the wrong place

  A humorous take on defending Christmas consumption against its critics.

• 🛋️Project Gatsby

  I've just written another essay for Comment Magazine, exploring a love letter to my college couch, accompanied by a short film that captures its essence.

• 🌱The power of weakness

  From Xavier Le Pichon, a reflection on the strength found in fragility and human connection.

• 🌌To be united with the beauty that we see

  In reflecting on the essence of beauty and our connection to it, C. S. Lewis beautifully articulates a profound longing within the human spirit.

• 🎄Sinatra songs and the Salve Regina

  A sublime cultural moment captured in Walker Percy’s reflection on Christmas, blending the everyday with the transcendent.

• 🎬Non-stupid romantic comedies

  A reflection on the enduring charm of romantic comedies amid a sea of mediocrity.

• 🎤Ella Fitzgerald, One Note Samba, 1969

  A friend asked me for a suitable Ella Fitzgerald recording for her wedding, leading me to choose her rendition of "Too Marvelous for Words."

• 😇O is for obedience

  An exploration of obedience as a creative act, inspired by a story from the Desert Fathers.

• 📚Department of applied literature

  A high-end storefront secular church in London reimagines philosophy and literature as tools for daily life.

• ❤️Almost a mantra

  A reflection on the essentials of life, emphasizing love, community, and the beauty of typesetting in a world where these values matter.

• 💍Mix CD | The Bridegroom Special

  Celebrating love with a joyous mix of multicultural tunes for a wedding celebration.

• 💔Fast and Right through Me

  A reflective review of Dave Eggers's memoir _A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius_, exploring themes of grief, authenticity, and the struggle for connection amidst personal loss.