Legacies

Looking graciously back on the giants before us.

"Men and women resist believing that they follow beaten paths. But they really become insufferably proud when they look around and think they leave no tracks."

"There's got to be something more than what I'm living for."

God himself is the "what." Edwards spent his life studying the "where," "when," "why," and "how."

Her fiction occupies an odd space, resuscitating the nerve-endings of our souls.

Millennia of tension in Christian materiality can be instructive as we move past modernist narratives of science at war with religion.

His legacy holds hope for returning the Western tradition to wonder, to adventure, to anticipation.

"Who knows? You could make millions of people happy."

When did "hard-working, successful, creative" become our virtues of choice?

We cannot afford the infrastructure and living arrangements we have built to centre our lives around the automobile.

The legacy of Charlotte Mason, prolific educational pioneer.

Hannah More used her pen to effect great reform.

Vanier and the L'Arche communities exemplify the "journey inward" funding the "journey outward."

His passion and networking skills could make him the patron saint of the twenty-first century.

"When I look at Warhol, what I feel is maximum redemption of lost material. He puts meaning back where there was deadness." —Wayne Koestenbaum

The world, including the political world, will always need saints to imitate.

Studying John Paul II's Laborem Exercens as not the "last word," but the "first word" on economics, human rights, and justice.

Products become obsolete; people grow. Which legacy of leadership is likely to stand the test of time?

The true measure of our legacy is the depth of our gratitude, not the shimmer of our moral and technical excellence.