What apocalyptic and dystopian novels can teach us about our faith.

Dappled Things at 20; Blue Walls Falling Down: A Review from Alex Taylor; Advent: The Playlist From Fr. Herman Majkrzak; An Interview with Daniel Cowper; A Quarrel With the World: Miłosz’s complicated Second World War

Paul Kingsnorth has summed up the civilizational path we have been walking for centuries now as an attempt to create a machine that can replace God. Yet the more we act as little gods, the more our societies have sunk into a crisis of meaning. Read about DT’s marching orders for the next twenty years of the journal.

Another entry in our series on the Vatican list of recommended films.