Struggle is good. It is through struggle that you and I become the sort of people we are, and it is through struggle that we form the attitudes and dispositions that eventually…
In an earlier article I explored how some high school teachers are abandoning writing as a teachable skill. Why require students to master the craft of essay writing when ChatGPT can produce content…
Now that the film, The Essential Church (a hash of anti-intellectual Protestant propaganda and personality worship camouflaged in sickening pseudo-spirituality) is available on Prime, it seems a fitting time to re-post my…
Dear Readers, I wanted to let you know that I started a Substack. Over the years I’ve been quite impressed with their publishing platform and how it’s integrated with email, so I…
Readers of this blog will know that I write quite a bit about art. One of the rewarding aspects of my recent project with Ancient Faith was the opportunity to tie together…
Bill Ackerman, a card carrying Democrat, had some trenchant observations in The Free Press about what is happening to Harvard as it is colonized by leftist ideologues (and, as a result, racists).…
The latest evangelical freak-out is because celebrity pastor, Rev. Alistair Begg, gave pastoral advice to a podcast listener, saying it was okay to attend a transgender wedding on love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin grounds. As online…
From The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, by Carolyn Merchant, p. 16: In the sixteenth century, the marriage and impregnation of the female earth by the higher celestial…
Here is a draft chapter for the forthcoming book I’m co-authoring with Joshua Pauling, titled We’re All Cyborgs Now: Technology and The Christian Faith (Basilian Media, 2024). Chapter on Boundaries
As if to prove the point I made last week about woke iconoclasm, the Mona Lisa has suffered a vicious attack. “On Sunday, two women defaced the Mona Lisa, splattering the masterpiece…
Today, labor and amusement seem to have a symbiotic relationship. Consider the growing population of people who work merely to afford the equipment and accommodation necessary for computer games. And how many…
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. Earlier this year I teamed up…
