Author Archives: Vigen Guroian

Beauty Is Transcendental

Beauty Is Transcendental

Emerson was moved to pronounce this about beauty: “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting—a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God, for it is a cup of blessing.” Ancient Christian writers describe beauty as the splendor […]

Three Fairy Tales on Goodness and Beauty

When I decided to write a second, expanded edition of Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Moral Imagination, my thoughts went through many iterations of the stories I might discuss in three new chapters. I could not include all the stories that came to mind. But I found room to […]

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