W.H. Auden

Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reasons May Sound Ideal, But We Can Never Be Sure We We’ve Done so Adequately.

“Alone, Alone, About a Dreadful Wood / Of Conscious Evil Runs a Lost Mankind”

God Will Cheat No One, not Even the World of Its Triumph

1. Today many of us are looking for clarity amidst the fraying strands of daily […]

The conclusion of a three-part series. Read the others here. Beloved, we are always in […]

Continuing from last week’s first part. Kierkegaard once (indirectly) wrote that it is an edifying […]

1. First up, Tullian Tchividjian posted a reflection on his remarkable grandfather, the late Billy […]

A passage from W.H. Auden’s posthumously published The Prolific and the Devourer, which comes to […]

Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too […]

Writing for The Chimera in the summer of 1943, W.H. Auden let fly this zinger, […]