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,…
I recently watched Disney’s 2021 animated film Encanto. This film centers on Mirabel, a girl who is part of a Latin American community held together by the gift of magic given to…
I have not had much time recently for blogging, so I apologize for the recent hiatus. After a long work day, much of it spent in front of screens, blogging in low…
Last year I had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion with Fr. Patrick Cardine and Nazo Zakkak on the role of beauty in worship. During my part of the presentation…
In Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of The Bible, Ellen Davis shares an anecdote about a student who “had a job interview at a Christian school in California where staff…
I grew up in an environment of books. Not only was my father a writer and editor, but he also owned a bookstore and a publishing company. Sometimes after school I would…
I have some exciting news to share! Between now and January 13th, the St. Basil Society has reduced the price of our book, Are We All Cyborgs Now? Reclaiming Our Humanity from…
