Annie Nardone offers two books
and a warm drink to curl up with
in this Pages, Pints, and Pours.

Isaac Hans, photographer, is the
Winter 2024 Feature Artist in
Anselm Society's new column.

Pages, Pints, and Pours pairs
a legendary drink with a
foodie-actor’s memoir.

Hope, like a candle in a window,
can draw travelers out of the
dark into the light of Christ.

The story goes like this. A
woman got brave and started a
book club. How did it turn out?
(You can read all about it here.)

Christina Brown on the poet’s—
and our—cathedral-shaped
journey toward union with God.

Painting as a Pastime by the
great Churchill: really? Yes,
and Queen Mum loved her
Drinkypoo (recipe included)

Everywhere she turned that
night, the ancient city revealed
a feast of light and beauty.

Gianna Soderstrom
muses on the ministry of second
breakfasts -- and the power of
inviting others into our homes.

Creating alongside others for half a day is a sweet hint of
heaven. Elisa Lambert shows 
us how to make it happen.

Read a review on Ted Hughes’s Poetry in the Making and pair it with a Breakfast Martini (recipe included).

There is an inextricable link between joy and being known.

You heard you’re not supposed to love the world. You heard wrong.

Read a review on Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life and pair it with a High Tide (recipe included).

Read a review on Neil Postman’s Amusing ourselves to Death and pair it with a comfort collins (recipe included).

You’re too busy, too tired, and too distracted. But that doesn’t need to be the end of the story.

Read a review on Robert Farrar Capon’s The Supper of the Lamb and pair it with a Sweet Martini (recipe included).

Read a review on Francis Schaeffer’s Art and the Bible nd pair it with a homemade hot cocoa (recipe included)!

Artists need solitude to create (or “conjure”), but we need one another too. Mandy and Matt and Christina discuss finding a balance between these seemingly contradictory needs.

SD Smith returns to the table to discuss his new book, The Found Boys.

Dr. Michael Ward uses various writings of C.S. Lewis as literary illumination to help us understand joy and tears even more deeply.

Chase Whitney emphasizes the significance of tears as a uniquely human experience, and discusses how joy and tears can make room for each other as we seek God in our lives.

Matt, Mandy, and Christina gather together to debrief about our recent podcast guest Lancia E. Smith on the power of naming.

Join Mandy as she talks with Amanda about how we might “reclaim the holidays for [our] heart’s formation and the glory of God”.

Christina dives deep into the real meaning of Halloween. It’s not what you think.

Matt’s debut middle-grade fantasy novel, Red Rex, is here! Join Mandy and Christina as they talk with Matt about the dream, the process, the plot, the characters, the illustrations — and the footnotes.

Calvin and Hobbes, and the Spiderman question for all of us…does great responsibility come with great power?

Taylor Swift is the most popular musician since the Beatles. And Matt doesn’t understand. So he sits down with a thoughtful fan to see if she can show him the ways of the Swifties.

We all have young storytellers in our lives. How can we best encourage them?

Christina and Evangeline interview Lancia Smith, founder of Cultivating.

Matt and Mandy interview fellow Anselm Guild member Jacoby Elliott, who is a musician, writer, and visual artist.

Mandy interviews poet, playwright, and critic Jane Scharl to discuss poetry.

Matt has never been able to get into Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel Dune or the film adaptations. So he brings Brian Brown and Peter Houk to the digital pub table to convince him of the merit of Dune.

Matt interviews Jody Collins about poetry and why people should like poetry and it shouldn't be so hard to do so.

Matt interviews short-story author KC Ireton, discussing KC's work and journey as an author.

Mandy, Matt, and Christina discuss impressions made on them as children by different forms of art, why they made an impression on them, and how it impacts them to today.

Brian joins Michael Minkoff of Renew the Arts for a conversation about Taylor Swift. Oh, and how imagination and art empower us to live like people of heaven.

Christina, Mandy, and Matt discuss the question, “How do we love other people with our art?”

Is there a purposeful pattern
of Creation across the Canon
through stories of multiplication?

It’s very likely that my heart will break over this tree in one way or another. But in God’s strange economy, being wounded means being mended in His likeness—the One for whom all of creation gladly sings.

What many people don’t know about the hymn For the Beauty of the Earth is that it was written as a communion hymn. And that makes all the difference in the world.

Amy Lee shares the story of the impact of the Guild on the lives around her.

The Anselm Society’s executive director, Brian Brown, was a guest on The Habit Podcast with Jonathan Rogers, to discuss how our creativity relates to God’s.

A behind-the-scenes look at what we do and why.

“I didn’t just want examples, I wanted explanations.”

An amazing conversation with Edward Klink.

A discussion with Anselm Society executive director Brian Brown.