articles by Thomas Howard

37.1 — Jan/Feb 2024

Your House as a Holy Place

Recognizing Signs of Heaven in Your Home


25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012

Changing Times & Permanent Things

An Inquiry into "Progressive" Ideas in Light of the Moral Universe


25.4 — July/August 2012

Catharsis? Caritas!

on the Crucial Limits of Art's Power to Transform


25.3 — May/Jun 2012

Just Sayin'

on What We Used to Know vs. What We Know Now


24.5 — Sept/Oct 2011

Hear the Angel Voices

on the Versified Dogma of Christian Worship


23.5 — September/October 2010

Beyond the Scrim

The Franklin Trees: A Late-Summer Night’s Dream
by Jonathan Nauman


21.8 — October 2008

The Oldies Record

on the Old Canon That Even Reactionaries Won’t Sing


21.1 — January/February 2008

Precious Poet

William Cowper: Selected Poetry and Prose
edited by David Lyle Jeffrey


20.2 — March 2007

The Light of Eventide

on Facing Senescence in Our Own Blithe Era


19.8 — October 2006

Waking Up Is Hard to Do

How Walker Percy Brought Sin & Grace to the New Yorker Reader


18.6 — Nov/Dec 2005

Generations of Faith

on Giving God Grandchildren


17.10 — December 2004

What About Charles Williams?

The Secret of the Enigmatic Inkling Revealed


17.3 — April 2004

Contra Spontaneity

on Christian Ritual


16.8 — October 2003

The Wages of Reading

on the Literature of Saints & Sinners


16.5 — June 2003

Being Forgotten

on Male Vanity


13.10 — December 2000

The Power of Wise Custom

on Ritual & Ceremony


10.4 — Fall 1997

Muggeridge: A Memoir

Malcolm Muggeridge: Journalist, Humorist & Christian


10.4 — Fall 1997

Recognizing the Church

A Personal Pilgrimage & the Discovery of Five Marks of the Church


9.3 — Summer 1996

Brideshead Revisited Revisited

Moral Imagination & the Catholic Faith in Evelyn Waugh’s Modern Novel


6.3 — Summer 1993

Recognizing the Church


4.2 — Special Issue: The Bible 1991

Muggeridge: A Memoir

1904–1990


short pieces by Thomas Howard

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