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What is Faith?

· June 28, 2026
What is faith — a figure in watercolor reaches toward golden light at the threshold between reason and the unmappable

Faith, in the version most people inherit, is the assumption you start from — the floor you stand on before any of the hard questions begin. Dante’s poem says something harder: faith is what’s left over after thinking has gone as far as it can and discovers it isn’t far enough. That’s not comfort. That’s … Read more

Dante’s Doubt — Inferno II

· June 25, 2026
Dantes Doubt Inferno 2

Canto 2 opens at nightfall — all creatures at rest, Dante alone still burdened — and immediately retracts the assent given at the end of Canto 1. He agreed to follow Virgil. Now he needs to know why he specifically should make this journey. Two precedents exist: Aeneas descended to serve the founding of Rome, … Read more