Our church has just finished celebrating Hallowtide. We prepared for it with our All Saints bonfire night on Saturday the 26th, when we had fun dressing up as different saints. Here I…
During election cycles, when Americans are most concerned about politics, they are the least concerned about political theory. That is appropriate. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle distinguished between the two, drawing a sharp…
In my book Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation, I explored the importance of beauty in the Christian life, observing in chapter 15 that as modern man is caught in the pincer grip…
During the recent Touchstone Conference, C.R. Wiley explained how the dream of Lewis’s Screwtape has finally been realized: we now live in a land of materialist magicians. As he put it, “The…
Here I am with our publisher, Dr. Gary (Cyril) Jenkins, at the Touchstone conference. I’m so thankful Dr. Jenkins caught the vision for this book, because our message is much needed! Most…
If there is any word that characterizes the modern situation, it is rapidity. Not only do we live at a time when information can be sent at almost unimaginable speeds, but recent…
Last week Joshua Pauling and I joined up with Jonah Martin and Kyle King to talk about our new book, Are We All Cyborgs Now?: Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine. Are…
Our book, published by the St. Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture, is now on its 10th day as Amazon’s #1 bestseller for new releases in Computers & Technology Education. The book has…
In Professor Louis Betty’s 2023 interview with Rod Dreher, he summarized the insights of Houellebecq about what happens when religion becomes “religion.” Once religion becomes definable as religion — that is, once…
Sometimes people ask me what is distinctive about Eastern Orthodox spirituality. The question is a difficult one. Many Roman Catholics I’ve talked to assume that Orthodoxy is simply Catholicism without the Filioque…
Two men came to the hospital with injuries. (This is not a joke.) One had experienced significant injuries in war, yet felt very little pain. The other, a workman, had been on…
The following is from my Substack article, “The Power of the Pause Gregorian Chant, Leisure, and the Joy of Going Slow“: I am Eastern Orthodox, and I came into the church through…
