“The Thinker,” Rodin’s brooding figure that sits in his sculpture gallery in Paris, is not his best work but by far his best known. What is he thinking? Many have wondered, and laughed, until “The Thinker” has become a comic figur... Read More »

In 1523 Martin Luther wrote a letter which showed his opinion of the importance of literature for Christianity:  I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure, just as heretofore, when letters have declined and lain pr... Read More »