Category: Arts & Poetry

Poetry

Various Contributors — May 30, 2026

Poetry

As is fitting, much of the poetry in our spring edition of Ad Fontes deals with beginnings. First, we have the great privilege of publishing two new poems by Donald…

Laughing at Liberal Learning: Education in Menippean Satire

Joshua Patch — May 30, 2026

Laughing at Liberal Learning: Education in Menippean Satire

There is a genre of literature that has long performed the useful office of mocking the best that has been thought and said in the world. Wherever lofty ideas have…

Holiness and Humanity in Frederick Buechner’s Godric

Jon Balsbaugh — May 30, 2026

Holiness and Humanity in Frederick Buechner’s Godric

I grew up in a part of America known as “the grass seed capital of the world,” Oregon’s Willamette Valley. I learned my religion in the small community churches my…