Some of you may know that I am editorial assistant for the Fellowship of St. James, which publishes Touchstone Magazine and Salvo. If you are not a subscriber to Touchstone, I would…
Through my work with Salvo Magazine, I have started to get involved in the Intelligent Design (ID) movement. I have found ID refreshing after my past involvement in the fideistic wing of…
There is a trend within modern Orthodoxy theology, represented most famously by Fr. John Romanides, to dispute the legitimacy of analogical language with respect to God-talk. Romanides’ book Patristic Theology has an entire…
When I received my copy of The Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century by Fr. Stephen De Young, I felt I had finally come home. I expected the…
In 2020 I published a book about gratitude because gratitude, in part to address some misunderstandings. Gratitude is greatly misunderstood because spiritual emotions are misunderstood. Spiritual emotions are misunderstood because struggle is…
Here are some resources from my recent publications and public speaking. Healing From the Pandemic. Earlier in the year I was asked to give a talk for a Greek Orthodox Church,…
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In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, there is a curious moment when the reader becomes aware that the animals who led the revolt against their human overlords have not only become the new…
I have always assumed that natural rights exist. But this lecture Nigel Biggar gave at the Thomistic Institute has challenged my thinking. Biggar is author of What’s Wrong with Rights? (Oxford, 2020).…
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Salvo #57 is hot off the press, and I’ve written the cover story, which looks at how woke fundamentalists are attempting to cancel Western Civilization in ways reminiscent of what ISIS did…
We heard a lot last year about Facebook striving to be philosophically neutral and to preserve free speech. These are two different categories, because philosophical neutrality is not the same as free…
