The Priory
Karen Swallow Prior, Elizabeth Kaye Cook, Samuel Loncar, Henry Oliver, Lucy S. R. Austen, Marginalia Review of Books, Jacob AlleePrayers of Attention
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James Boswell on Samuel Johnson: “Frequently Characteristick, and Always Amusing”:
A Guest Post by Lucy S. R. Austen
Note: I’m thrilled to feature a guest essay by Lucy S. R. Austen, a reader, writer, editor, and the author of the biography Elisabeth Elliot: A Life. Her forthcoming book, a middle-grade telling of Elliot’...
Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language
One of my favorite schoolgirl memories (I loved school, so I have a lot of such memories!) happened in fourth grade. One student a day was assigned the homework of choosing for class the next day a new word from the dictionary. On the day I...
Executions are not Entertainment
The execution of Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794 [image in public domain]
Here’s an excerpt from my column just out at Religion News Service, prompted by recent news:
Public executions have not taken place in the United S...
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Samuel Johnson’s Rambler No. 4: On Fiction
And the reading schedule for Frances Burney’s Evelina
Samuel Johnson’s Rambler essay Number 4, which is concerned with “the works of fiction … with which the present Generation seems more particularly delighted,” was published in 1750. Wha...
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A reader and writer attending more closely to what is good, true, and beautiful. The Priory is devoted to the holy cultivation of a rich inner life. “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” -- Mary Oliver [Coming in ‘28: My Year of War and Peace]
Tender-hearted hater who loves contradictions. Without books, life is incomplete. Anti-censorship. Pro-imagination.
A place for people desiring a deeper life. Created by philosopher Samuel Loncar, Ph.D (Yale), Editor, Marginalia Review 📚
Writer. Critic. Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. \Literature, history, liberalism, philosophy.
Lucy S. R. Austen’s biography, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, spans a century and examines what makes a good life, how to reconcile materiality and spirituality, and how little control humans really have, all in less than half the length of War and Peace.
Curated by expert editors and guided by Marginalia' s vision of democratizing depth in an age drowning in the shallows, our pages unite the separated silos of the university, arts, science, and culture into a single space of insight and learning.
Follower of Jesus. A Great Books, Logic, and Rhetoric teacher. I have a Ph.D. in Humanities from Faulkner University. I wrote my dissertation upon the role stories play in developing and preserving virtue in society. Reformed-Augustinian-Thomist.
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