March 2023

In The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis wrote that there are two errors that we can fall into regarding the spiritual realm—one is to deny it altogether; the other is to obsess over it. The former produces materialists; the latter, magicians. Throughout her history the Church has combatted heresies of both sorts. Some materialistic heresies have denied […]

It may be thou knowest not of the banishment of Anaxagoras, of the poison draught of Socrates, nor of Zeno’s torturing, because these things happened in a distant country; yet mightest thou have learnt the fate of Arrius, of Seneca, of Soranus, whose stories are neither old nor unknown to fame.  These men were brought