The Cresset
A Review of Literature, Fine Arts, and Current Affairs
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essays
Whitman's Cafe
Reviving the American Conversation
Harold K. Bush Jr.
Soaring
Avian Marginalia
John Steven Paul
Brains
Gary Fincke

 

in luce tua
JSP Remembered
James Paul Old

 

public affairs
nation : The Meaning of Meddling
Obama, Lincoln, and Democratic Statesmanship
Peter Meilaender
citizenship: Silence = Death
David Lott
pop culture: A Post-Roddenberry Star Trek
Robert H. Blackman
J. Michael Utzinger

 

literature and the arts
film: No Easy Answers
John Patrick Shanley's Doubt
Conrad Ostwalt
music: A Kiss to Build a Dream On
J. D. Buhl
fiction: Voices in the Wilderness
Freedom and Domination in Toni Morrison's A Mercy
Erin Dalpini

 

religion
pulpit and pew: Four Funerals and a Wedding
Paul Koch
being lutheran: Passing on the Faith
Katie Koch

 

verse
Night Study
Devon Miller-Duggan
Sukkah
Diane Scholl
Academic Couple
Mary M. Brown
How Not To
Jeanne Murray Walker
Note Taking
Jean Hollander
Doubt
Georgia Ressmeyer
Stars
Dorothea Kewley

 

books
Alan Jacobs's Original Sin: A Cultural History
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb
Mary Oliver's Evidence: Poems
D. S. Martin
Paul Westermeyer's Rise, O Church
Neil Elliott