Skip to content

Ben Woollard

Ben Woollard is a writer and editor based in Northern California. His work has appeared in Literature Hub, Permaculture Magazine, Front Porch Republic, and elsewhere, and he can be found writing at https://asilkentent.substack.com/.

"Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid." Illustration for Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies by Jessie Wilcox Smith, ca. 1916

Man of Science, Man of God

In The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley parodied the dogmatic belief held by many in Victorian England that faith and reason are incompatible.
Patrick White, ca. 1940

The Two Worlds of Patrick White

In writing and life, the Australian Nobel Laureate was ever preoccupied by the search for spiritual meaning and the fraught relationship between God and blundering humanity.