Editorial - Joseph Pearce

Inside StAR

Wounded Beauty: Grace against Nature in the Christian Imagination - Stephen Shivone

Wisdom and Suffering - Matthew Chominski

A Note on the Problem of Evil - John Beaumont

The Burgeoning Imagination and the Burden of the Cross: Vision versus Vocation in the Life and Work of Owen Barfield - Matthew P. Akers

New Voices: Romero Lives by Desmond Egan

Can Beauty Save the World?: Searching for Dostoevsky’s Salvific Aesthetic - Mary Ordos

New Voices: “Woman in Blue Reading a Letter” by K. D. Bush

Fenestrae Coeli: The Quest for Beauty: Fr. Michael J. Burbeck interviews Cameron Smith

Masterpieces: Christ of St. John of the Cross by Salvador Dali - Ken Clark

Michelangelo’s Rejected Stone: A Prose Poetic Reflection on the Wounds of Love - Ronald Buttarazzi

Theater of the Word: The Bishop Goes to See Hamilton - Kevin O’Brien

Tuning My Words to the Word: Transcending Adversity - Donald DeMarco

Inklings: Digory’s Severe Mercy - Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Musica Donum Dei: The Passion of Christ in Music - Susan Treacy

Movie Star Video Vero: Wild Strawberries (1959, Directed by Ingmar Bergman) - James Bemis

New Voices: Phanuel’s Daughter by Philip C. Kolin

James Joyce’s Catholic Categories (Fr. Colum Power) Reviewed by Mike Aquilina

Pilgrim’s Gait (David Craig); A Cut-and-Paste Country (Kathleen Hart) Reviewed by Stephen Mirarchi

Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge (Pierre Manent; Translated by Ralph C. Hancock) Reviewed by Jordan Almanzar

Mary (Peter Milward, SJ) Reviewed by Clara Sarrocco

Chiara Corbella Petrillo: A Witness to Joy (Simone Troisi & Cristiana Paccini) Reviewed by Rachel Ronnow

God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England (Jessie Childs) Reviewed by Stephanie A. Mann

New Voices: The Sphinx by Mike Aquilina