Join us in feasting on good food and good fellowship October 19 as we delve into the next few missives from The Screwtape Letters!

Care to join us on an adventure? Sharing your love of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy with like-minded fans… while enjoying Second Breakfast…and reading a favorite LOTR chapter aloud…all while dressed as a hobbit or elf!

Brian Brown appears on the FORMA Journal podcast to talk about how Christian art got crippled, and how we’re going to heal it.

We’re still celebrating the third annual Imagination Redeemed Conference!

Anselm board member Lancia Smith was recently profiled in Christianity Today, where she talked about Anselm.

Christmas isn’t just safe and cheery. It has a deeply beautiful dark side.

Christmas is a beautiful building block to begin to plant a flag, make a place, and let things have their proper meaning again.

An interview in the Circe Institute’s Forma Journal.

Thoughts on the Apostle of the Imagination.

A sonnet of reclamation, by Malcolm Guite.

Rod Dreher: We are called to testify in the ruins, by our lives and our art, to the reality of God.

Dr. Malcolm Guite (Cambridge) and Dr. Michael Ward (Oxford) introduce the Christian imaginations of Dante and C.S. Lewis.

Ken Robertson explores the art of lament as a response to grief…and as a way to walk with God through darkness.

No matter how small or great our bounded space may be in any given season, there is room to do what He has given us to do.

This piece by John Skillen of Gordon College has profoundly influenced our vision of a healthy relationship between pastors, artists, audience, and patrons.

Madeleine L’Engle’s spiritual legacy shows the challenges that can come with trying to show people who they truly are.

Anselm Society director Brian Brown wrote a piece for the summer 2018 issue of The Cultivating Project on the role of art and artists in spiritual formation.

The Anselm Society is pleased to make available the audio from every lecture and panel from the conference.

Explore what it means to cultivate in context of a whole life, what a rule of life is, how it works, and how to create one for yourself. 

Sacraments and sacramental living were a daily reality for most people in the past, but often not so much for 21st century North Americans.

All great works of art are at heart monster stories, whether the monsters are dragons, step-mothers, social injustices, or even the self.

The Anselm Society's second annual Your Imagination Redeemed conference inspired artists, pastors, and laity from around the country.

Kristopher Orr’s “Western Wind” is a call to the Church to remember her name.

Tips from Brian Brown from the Anselm Society's Storytelling night.

Charles Dickens, a journalist, and a future father reflect on truth, imagination, and Christmas.

A gem from Anthony Esolen on the breathtaking nature of the beauty that is the redeemed imagination.

Anselm director Brian Brown recently wrote a letter to the Anselm leadership team, which he gave permission to the Cultivating Project to publish.

Malcolm Guite reflects on stringing, George Herbert, and getting in tune.

An interview with Brian Brown on Vernacular Podcast.

Follow the story of an American pastor whose desire to change the world grinds to a halt in a Scottish parish. Join Eugene Peterson, N. T. Wright and Granny Wallace on a pilgrimage to being known in your own backyard.

Michael Hanby at the Eliot Society

Ken Myers at the Eliot Society

Anthony Esolen: Sometimes a single encounter with what is healthy and ordinary is enough to shake you out of the bad dreams of disease and confusion.

Roger Scruton: The life of the mind is a lifelong recreation, a re-creation of reality, and a way of belonging. 

Peter Hitchens: The languages of architecture, music, and poetry work mightily on us when we are not aware of it

Power a renaissance of the Christian imagination, and get the Your Imagination Redeemed conference video for free!

Brian Brown's opening remarks from the Your Imagination Redeemed Conference 2017.

When the home of our thoughts shifts from ‘who am I?’ to ‘Who is He?’ I believe we begin to fathom the miracle of ‘Christ in us, the hope of glory.'

Sometime in the 10th century, an Old English poem is recorded in a book donated to Exeter Cathedral — a poem about an unmoored exile who has lost his home and now roves the earth searching for a new one.

Hosted by Matt Mellema and Marcus Robinson.

What we accomplished this year, and what's coming up in 2016-17!

April 1 2017: Featuring keynote speaker and performer Andrew Peterson.

Have you ever looked at an actual Rembrandt? I mean really looked? I have. And it is exhausting. Why? Because Rembrandt was a master. If you are willing to look, he will show more than you can take in. This is what masters do.

Advice from John Steinbeck, Annie Dillard, J.K. Rowling, and more.

Rod Dreher named the Anselm Society as a good example of an organization doing the "Benedict Option" well.

No one's going to miss your unfinished novels or paintings. Or will they?

Though we toil over art, nurturing it and sending it out with a final benediction into a wider arena, our fruit is an offshoot and not the core of our creativity.

Leave a note and sign the card for the Anselm Society Arts Guild--encourage our artists at Christmastime!

Audio and photos are up!

Read about the vision for the Anselm Society, why we didn't pick an easier name, the role of artists in a church, and what Firefly can teach us about community.

The Baylor professor's time with us left no one disappointed.

...as an art form, and a ground of culture creation where Christians need to be present.

How can we build strong communities and be humble at the same time?

What is the Benedict Option? Rod Dreher explains.

The great modern poet T.S. Eliot is a model for poets and artists in our own chaotic world. Here are just a few things we can learn from him.

In our September 5 conversation with poet Scott Cairns, we explored the nature of Christian community in light of the human condition.

Member artist Evangeline Denmark's next novel will be out in January!

Anselm member artists joined 50 of our supporters for a special evening to kick off our year, hosted in the lovely home of Clay and Sally Clarkson.

Perhaps his most famous and enduring tribute to his beloved bride was weaving his romance with her into the mythology of Middle Earth in the story of Beren and Luthien.

Creativity begets creativity. Beauty calls out to beauty.

You could blame technology and the hurried twenty-first century lifestyle, or point to commercialism and pop culture. But there is another reason: People underestimate our common ability to apprehend the aesthetic.

Narrative vs. uncertainty in the Bible.

A review of Kenneth Branagh's new film.

Member artist Bill Thielker responds to Malcolm Guite's recent talk.

What is their relationship?

Meet the recording artist who will be joining us on May 2.

Some wise words from Rod Dreher.

But for now, it is enough to get back up and roll away the stone.

A few things writers should learn from Wendell Berry.

How the Christian story helps us understand modern art.

Here we share a poem from our March 28 speaker, Malcolm Guite, for Lent.

Brendon Sylvester reflects on
the “dark and shining” mysteries
in the poet's stunning poems.

Faith, hope, and poetry
in Annie Nardone's latest
Pages, Pints, & Pours
featuring Malcolm Guite.

Brendon Sylvester explores
how ordinary daydreaming
can redeem of imaginations

From the decision fatigue of modern life to the machine expectations we place on ourselves, this conversation unpacks why we struggle to be present and offers practical wisdom for reclaiming the art of attention.

Quirky characters, steadfast
determination, and Norse spirits
in this edition of Annie Nardone’s 
Pages, Pints, and Pours.

Author Jennifer Layte is a firm believer in the power of story to draw us closer to Jesus and closer to an understanding of who we are. Join Mandy and Jenn at the pub table as they discuss story, nicknames, and Jenn's latest book, Follower: How Getting Close to Jesus Brings You to Yourself.

Mandy asks her cohosts to consider: why do some of us gravitate toward sad art when we're already sad? What is the purpose and value of art that's a little bit (or very much) heartbreaking?

Karissa Riffel's final post in her
study of The Magician's Nephew
examines our heart's true desire
as we trust Aslan (aka Christ).

Karissa Riffel looks at dominion,
not domination, in Part 3 of
her Magician's Nephew study.

Part 2 of Karissa Riffel’s
four-part study of
The Magician’s Nephew
looks at love over selfishness.

Karissa Riffel begins
a four-part study of
creation themes found
in The Magician's Nephew.

Interview with the author of “In the House of Tom Bombadil”

Noah Love reviews John Mark
McMillan’s latest album in a 
new column from Anselm.

Show up, slow down, and
discover that what you focus on
has the power to shape who
you are, says Matthew Clark

After all, God designed us
to sing—and to wake each
other up to beautiful things.

Isaac Hans introduces us to
Rebekah Blum, Anselm's
Summer 2025 Feature Artist

John Hendrix creates graphic novels that beautifully blend prose and illustrations to tell complex stories. His latest work, The Mythmakers, delves into a subject near and dear to the heart of the Anselm Society: the friendship of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.

How “Encanto” opens our eyes to finding the Great Story in daily life.

Sarah Hendricks is the author of a new YA fantasy novel called Ella. What’s encompassed by the term “YA Fantasy”? What are its different niches and sub-genres? And why does it have such enduring popularity with so many readers? Sarah Hendricks has the answers.

Annie Nardone recommends
a tale from Ray Bradbury in
her Pages, Pints, and Pours.

We know there's "nothing new under the sun," but must there be so many TV shows with a first responder, life-or-death, emergency services premise? Why are writers and viewers drawn to these stories--and what differentiates those worth saving from those that ought to be DOA?

SD Smith has recently announced a Green Ember video game. He joins the digital pub table to discuss this exciting new project.

What does it mean to “practice resurrection,” as Wendell Berry put it?