Micah Mattix is poetry editor at First Things and professor of English at Regent University in Virginia. He has published a book of essays on poetry titled The Soul is a Stranger in This World, and his criticism has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and The National Review. Sally Thomas is the author of the poetry collection Motherland as well as a novel, Works of Mercy. She has published poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays in such venues as First Things, Plough Quarterly, and the New Yorker. She serves as Associate Poetry Editor for The New York Sun. Together, Mattix and Thomas are editors of a new anthology we discuss today: Christian Poetry since 1940.
Douglas E. Christie is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. His books include The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism, Loss, and the...
Devon Abts is Research and Operations Director for the Clemente Course in the Humanities, an organization whose mission is to provide transformative educational experiences,...
We resume a tradition from the past years, discussing some favorite books we read in 2025. As always, our themes involve religion, spirituality, and...
