The following is a passage from my upcoming book “Submit to the Pause: Meditations on the Power of Being Slow in a World Going Too Fast.” The classical Christian tradition has made…
The current rise of discourse about “right-wing wokeness” has left many people confused. What exactly is “wokeness,” and is it really becoming a problem in the Trump-Carlson-MAGA ecosystem? Is the rising concern…
At the recent Paideia conference at Antiochian Village, I was blessed to hear Caitlin Gilbert present a paper on embracing the Orthodox intellectual life as a form of asceticism. Gilbert, who is…
I wanted to offer another update on the book tour for Are We All Cyborgs Now? Reclaiming Our Humanity From the Machine (for the first update, see here.) Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt…
Many people know the eleventh century Catholic saint, Hildegard of Bingen, as simply a composer. But she was also a proto-scientist. In her poetical science—based on the notion that cosmic order unfolds in…
I recently ordered Saint Paisios’ With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man Volume I on interlibrary loan so I could check the quotes I shared earlier on simple living in order accurately…
On Saturday I went to explore a new hike with a new book. The hike was the Bull Run-Occoquan Trail (pictured right). The book was N.T. Wright’s new publication The Challenge of…
I wanted to share some upcoming events as Are We All Cyborgs Now? hits the road. Paideia Presentation Next Week I will be speaking at the third annual Paideia Conference at Antiochian Village…
From my Substack article, “MAGA Goes Woke Will the Real Neo-Marxists Please Stand Up?” Right-wing identity politics is not racism, white supremacy, nor Christian nationalism, though it is adjacent to all three…
I thought it would be fun to share a snippet from the new book I’m writing, Submit to the Pause: The Power of Being Slow in a World Going Too Fast. I have…
This is an update and expansion of an earlier post, in order to address additional pushback and further reader questions. In correspondence with readers, I am sometimes asked to comment on debates…
As we work our way through Holy Week, I wanted to share my explanation of the importance of the church calendar that I offered in Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation. In that…
