Join us in feasting on good food and good fellowship October 19 as we delve into the next few missives from The Screwtape Letters!

Care to join us on an adventure? Sharing your love of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy with like-minded fans… while enjoying Second Breakfast…and reading a favorite LOTR chapter aloud…all while dressed as a hobbit or elf!

Brian Brown appears on the FORMA Journal podcast to talk about how Christian art got crippled, and how we’re going to heal it.

We’re still celebrating the third annual Imagination Redeemed Conference!

Anselm board member Lancia Smith was recently profiled in Christianity Today, where she talked about Anselm.

Christmas isn’t just safe and cheery. It has a deeply beautiful dark side.

Christmas is a beautiful building block to begin to plant a flag, make a place, and let things have their proper meaning again.

An interview in the Circe Institute’s Forma Journal.

Thoughts on the Apostle of the Imagination.

A sonnet of reclamation, by Malcolm Guite.

Rod Dreher: We are called to testify in the ruins, by our lives and our art, to the reality of God.

Dr. Malcolm Guite (Cambridge) and Dr. Michael Ward (Oxford) introduce the Christian imaginations of Dante and C.S. Lewis.

Ken Robertson explores the art of lament as a response to grief…and as a way to walk with God through darkness.

No matter how small or great our bounded space may be in any given season, there is room to do what He has given us to do.

This piece by John Skillen of Gordon College has profoundly influenced our vision of a healthy relationship between pastors, artists, audience, and patrons.

Madeleine L’Engle’s spiritual legacy shows the challenges that can come with trying to show people who they truly are.

Anselm Society director Brian Brown wrote a piece for the summer 2018 issue of The Cultivating Project on the role of art and artists in spiritual formation.

The Anselm Society is pleased to make available the audio from every lecture and panel from the conference.

Explore what it means to cultivate in context of a whole life, what a rule of life is, how it works, and how to create one for yourself. 

Sacraments and sacramental living were a daily reality for most people in the past, but often not so much for 21st century North Americans.

All great works of art are at heart monster stories, whether the monsters are dragons, step-mothers, social injustices, or even the self.

The Anselm Society's second annual Your Imagination Redeemed conference inspired artists, pastors, and laity from around the country.

Kristopher Orr’s “Western Wind” is a call to the Church to remember her name.

Tips from Brian Brown from the Anselm Society's Storytelling night.

Charles Dickens, a journalist, and a future father reflect on truth, imagination, and Christmas.

A gem from Anthony Esolen on the breathtaking nature of the beauty that is the redeemed imagination.

Anselm director Brian Brown recently wrote a letter to the Anselm leadership team, which he gave permission to the Cultivating Project to publish.

Malcolm Guite reflects on stringing, George Herbert, and getting in tune.

An interview with Brian Brown on Vernacular Podcast.

Follow the story of an American pastor whose desire to change the world grinds to a halt in a Scottish parish. Join Eugene Peterson, N. T. Wright and Granny Wallace on a pilgrimage to being known in your own backyard.

Michael Hanby at the Eliot Society

Ken Myers at the Eliot Society

Anthony Esolen: Sometimes a single encounter with what is healthy and ordinary is enough to shake you out of the bad dreams of disease and confusion.

Roger Scruton: The life of the mind is a lifelong recreation, a re-creation of reality, and a way of belonging. 

Peter Hitchens: The languages of architecture, music, and poetry work mightily on us when we are not aware of it

Power a renaissance of the Christian imagination, and get the Your Imagination Redeemed conference video for free!

Brian Brown's opening remarks from the Your Imagination Redeemed Conference 2017.

When the home of our thoughts shifts from ‘who am I?’ to ‘Who is He?’ I believe we begin to fathom the miracle of ‘Christ in us, the hope of glory.'

Sometime in the 10th century, an Old English poem is recorded in a book donated to Exeter Cathedral — a poem about an unmoored exile who has lost his home and now roves the earth searching for a new one.

Hosted by Matt Mellema and Marcus Robinson.

What we accomplished this year, and what's coming up in 2016-17!

April 1 2017: Featuring keynote speaker and performer Andrew Peterson.

Have you ever looked at an actual Rembrandt? I mean really looked? I have. And it is exhausting. Why? Because Rembrandt was a master. If you are willing to look, he will show more than you can take in. This is what masters do.

Advice from John Steinbeck, Annie Dillard, J.K. Rowling, and more.

Rod Dreher named the Anselm Society as a good example of an organization doing the "Benedict Option" well.

No one's going to miss your unfinished novels or paintings. Or will they?

Though we toil over art, nurturing it and sending it out with a final benediction into a wider arena, our fruit is an offshoot and not the core of our creativity.

Leave a note and sign the card for the Anselm Society Arts Guild--encourage our artists at Christmastime!

Audio and photos are up!

Read about the vision for the Anselm Society, why we didn't pick an easier name, the role of artists in a church, and what Firefly can teach us about community.

The Baylor professor's time with us left no one disappointed.

...as an art form, and a ground of culture creation where Christians need to be present.

How can we build strong communities and be humble at the same time?

What is the Benedict Option? Rod Dreher explains.

The great modern poet T.S. Eliot is a model for poets and artists in our own chaotic world. Here are just a few things we can learn from him.

In our September 5 conversation with poet Scott Cairns, we explored the nature of Christian community in light of the human condition.

Member artist Evangeline Denmark's next novel will be out in January!

Anselm member artists joined 50 of our supporters for a special evening to kick off our year, hosted in the lovely home of Clay and Sally Clarkson.

Perhaps his most famous and enduring tribute to his beloved bride was weaving his romance with her into the mythology of Middle Earth in the story of Beren and Luthien.

Creativity begets creativity. Beauty calls out to beauty.

You could blame technology and the hurried twenty-first century lifestyle, or point to commercialism and pop culture. But there is another reason: People underestimate our common ability to apprehend the aesthetic.

Narrative vs. uncertainty in the Bible.

A review of Kenneth Branagh's new film.

Member artist Bill Thielker responds to Malcolm Guite's recent talk.

What is their relationship?

Meet the recording artist who will be joining us on May 2.

Some wise words from Rod Dreher.

But for now, it is enough to get back up and roll away the stone.

A few things writers should learn from Wendell Berry.

How the Christian story helps us understand modern art.

Here we share a poem from our March 28 speaker, Malcolm Guite, for Lent.

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.

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.)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Christina and Evangeline interview Lancia Smith, founder of Cultivating.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Look to the lowly (and loud)
cicada for encouragement.
Haven't we all felt buried?
Yet a new life was coming.

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.

A reflection on Reformation
poetry and its glimpse into
the death found in faith,
and the life given through
grace.

Jackson Greer ponders on why
Chesterton claims “Beauty and
the Beast” shows that to be
lovable, one must first be loved.

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.