Art and Heaven

Prize-winning poet and prosody professor James Matthew Wilson invites us to contemplate the forms of art and liturgy and to discover their shared still point in the contemplation of being and, ultimately, the worship of God.

Chants for Unity

Thomas Neal explains how sacred polyphony developed from plainchant and how, at its best, it enriches the Church’s prayer by joining musical beauty, textual clarity, and contemplative depth in the service of the liturgy.

Laying Down Some Tracts

St. John Henry Newman’s Oxford Movement will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2033, and Jan C. Bentz examines how its landmark publication, Tracts for the Times, remains relevant today.

Alexander the Great

Andrew TJ Kaethler owes Alexander Schmemann a debt of sacramental and eschatological gratitude—and shows how the Eastern Orthodox theologian’s work can help us rediscover that same gratitude in the liturgy.

Believing Is Seeing

In Praying with Sacred Art: Pondering the Mystery of Redemption through Visio Divina, Father Lorenzo Penalosa explains how author Derek Rotty helps readers encounter God through sacred art from across the Church’s Eastern and Western traditions.