The Guild Review

The Guild Review is a blog of art, culture, faith and politics. We seek understanding, not conformity.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

St. Augustine on Music

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I have recently been reading through a delightful little volume titled Augustine Day by Day  (hence the recent post from his Confessions ). ...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Because Augustine Is Always a Good Idea

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A couple passages from Augustine's Confessions for your Monday: I asked the earth, and it answered, “I am not he”; and everything in t...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Auden's "September 1, 1939"

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Earlier this year I discovered W. H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939," thanks to an article in the Financial Times . The po...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Seeing the Beatitudes Anew

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Recently I have been reading Matthew's Gospel and I was really struck by the Beatitudes, both for their forcefulness and their role in f...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

My Short Reading List - Foreign Policy

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As you might have guessed, I am a bibliophile.  I collect not only physical books but also lists of them: favorite books of various genres, ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

The Shield of Faith - An Update

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Six years ago I wrote a post about St. Paul's admonition to the Ephesians to "hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming a...
Monday, June 2, 2014

The City on a Waterfall

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The concept of a city built on a waterfall was first brought to my attention by James Gurney's Waterfall City (pictured above) in Din...
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