Michael Phillips on Endangered Virtues

Elsewhere I have shared about my father’s writing projects, in particular his work with George MacDonald. His latest project is a book of cultural analysis that was recently released by Fidelis Publishing.…

Logic and Online Source Evaluation

Earlier this year I finished hammering out a second Master’s degree, this time from the University of Oklahoma. I specialized in Reference Librarianship (helping people find things) and Information Literacy (teaching skills…

Antisemitism and the Gospel

Almost five years ago, Robert Bowers went into a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh and opened fire on the congregants during their Sabbath morning service. The attack left eleven people dead and six…

My Book is On Sale

My book on creation (creation, not creationism) that came out earlier this year is now on sale at the Ancient Faith store for $17.21. At 400 pages (that includes front matter, index,…

Dr. Phillip Cary and Robin Phillips on Ancient Faith Today

Back when I used to do a podcast, one of the highlights was the two-part interview I did with Dr. Phillip Cary on Plato and Postmodernism/Virtue. I recently teamed up with Dr.…

Beauty Filters and Augmented Reality

I want to draw your attention to a recent offerings over at my Salvo column. My article, “From Pokémon to Beauty Filters: Augmented Reality and the New Nihilism” explores how beauty filters continue…

Ken Myers, the Practicality of Metaphysics, and the Upcoming Touchstone Conference

For decades I have been spiritually strengthened from Ken Myers’s ministry at the Mars Hill Audio Journal, which offers interviews with a variety of scholars on the most pressing issues of our time.…

Christ not Caesar? Review of “The Essential Church”

In my previous article, I explored some of the questions raised by Grace Community Church’s controversial statement, “Christ, not Caesar, Is Head of the Church: A Biblical Case for the Church’s Duty…

Christ, Caesar, and Political Theology: Background to the Documentary, “The Essential Church”

During the lockdowns of 2020, did the government abuse its authority by claiming power over churches? Who has authority over the church, Christ or Caesar? What does it mean to “render to…

The Artistry of the Machine in the Empire of Desire

“Art imitates nature.” Many take this concept, which goes at least as far back as Aristotle’s Poetics, to mean that artists represent what they find in the natural world like a landscape painter…

Government by Bot

During the period known as “the Enlightenment,” many Europeans entertained a feverish enthusiasm for overturning existing canons of political thought for theories and methods rooted in the axioms of human reason. In…

Devotional Objects of the Neoliberal Regime

From Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld, by Byung-Chul Han, 23-25: “It is not we who use the smartphone; the smartphone uses us. The real actor is the smartphone. We are at the…


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