Our second issue is up, but we’re still working to pull everything together with our new setup, so I apologize for the ongoing experimentation with colour and form!

During the next few days, I’ll introduce some of the pieces we present in this issue, just to give an idea of what they are like, and whether they will interest you.

The philosophy we present in our new issue is really suitable reading for this week of commemoration of the Lord’s passion. The first piece, Amy Gordon’s Bach and Albert Schweitzer’s Aesthetics is an exploration of Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” using Schweitzer’s ideas of aesthetics. She proposes that the music lends itself to a Via Dolorosa — it is majestic, yet sorrowful.

The second piece, Suffering Freely Sought: The Philosophy of Christian Asceticism is about the purpose of self-denial in the Christian life. While it doesn’t describe the theological benefits of such suffering, it explains how self-indulgence weakens a person’s faculties of intellect and will, and how self-discipline gives strength and freedom. I had been thinking about this since getting into St. John of the Cross a few years ago; I hope you enjoy it as a Lenten reflection.

Let me know if anything on the site isn’t working! I’ll be pulling it together over the next few days. God bless!