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…
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…
In a recent article on my Substack, I observed that if a killer robot walked into a city and began turning humans into paperclips, we have a mental map for how to…
Most of the music we listen to and enjoy today has been influenced by rock music. But while rock music, or Rock’n’roll, may be seem familiar, or even old fashion (hence the…
My friends, Alex and Jesse Braszko, have been going through a very difficult time as their 18-year-old daughter, Lily, suffers in the last stages of terminal cancer. People were wanting to send…
I wanted to offer an update on some of the buzz currently surrounding, Are We All Cyborgs Now?: Reclaiming Our Humanity From the Machine, the book I recently co-authored with Joshua Pauling.…
Now that Lent is upon us, it is worthwhile to reflect on how we can offer our struggles to God, both involuntary struggles (i.e., sickness and suffering in our families), as well…
In Wounded by Love: The Life and Wisdom of St. Porphyrios, the saint addresses the suffering caused by over-sensitivity, and how this type of suffering, like all hardships, can be transformed into a…
In N.T. Wright’s book, The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion, he summarizes popular conceptions of the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement as follows. a). All humans sinned,…
