An MIT physicist, a medieval saint, and a French philosopher share an unexpected common ground: a longing they cannot explain away. The Restless Heart asks: if God is fiction, why can't we stop asking about him?

C. S. Lewis shows how faith can think clearly and still move the heart. This profile explores his union of reason, imagination, and joy, and why his voice still guides seekers today.

Scrolling headlines can make you feel powerless or enraged. The Serenity Prayer offers a simple rule of life: accept what you can’t change, change what you can, and learn the wisdom to know the difference.

When the powerful retreat into splendor while the world outside trembles, history reminds us what follows. In Dancing in the Ballroom of the Red Death, we revisit Poe’s haunting allegory to ask what happens when leaders trade humility for spectacle, and what remains when the music stops

As Washington debates budgets, millions face hunger. This Thanksgiving, A Shutdown, a Moral Test asks what conscience requires of a nation that can fund grandeur but hesitates to feed its own.

Charlie Brown never wins: every year Lucy pulls the football away, and every year he tries again. Charles Schulz drew a world where failure is normal, disappointment is expected, and perseverance becomes a kind of grace.