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



more from the online archives

30.2—March/April 2017

The Cross of Least Resistance

Our Path to Holiness Runs Straight Through Calvary by Robin Phillips

14.2—March 2001

The God of Princes

on the Political Use of Religion by Wilfred M. McClay

22.5—June 2009

A Law for All Seasons

C. S. Lewis on Civilization & the Natural Order by Timothy L. Hall

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