(1) Is the Church of England in a Death Spiral? (The Catholic Thing)

(2) In the Heaven of Knowing: Dante’s “Paradiso” (The Imaginative Conservative)

“Place functions as an index and sign of what a thing is. Where a soul is, is the sign of what it is, the sign of that soul’s condition or quality. Dante’s spiritualization of place fits with how we speak. ‘I’m in a good place right now,’ we sometimes say, or ‘I just don’t know where he is these days,’ meaning ‘I don’t know what condition his mind or his soul is in.'”