Having benefited so much from Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, I was eager to read his latest book The Glass Cage: Automation and Us.…
I first published this post in 2014, but am rerunning it now for the sake of many new readers who may not have seen this. Introduction Having been involved in raising five…
My earlier blog post, ‘Struggling Towards Holiness‘, has been published in the March/April issue of Touchstone. Touchstone has made this article available for those who don’t subscribe to the magazine at the…
In 2013, I did work on attentiveness for the Colson Center. I have gradually been republishing my work here, which you can access at the following links: Hollowing out the Habits of…
There’s an American maxim which says you shouldn’t discuss religion or politics in polite society. It’s hard not to have some sympathy with this advice, especially during the election cycle. After all,…
The sun was just going down as Maryām made her way through the narrow streets, trying to keep to back-alleys so no one noticed her. She had made this journey dozens of…
In my workshop ‘Gratitude During Times of Suffering‘ I talked about the emWave technology I’ve been using to measure heart-rate variability. In this lecture, the cardiologist Dr. Trent Orfanos explains about the…
I’d like to invite you to do a little thought experiment with me. Shut your eyes and imagine that every single person on earth is thinking about you right now. Moreover, imagine…
A common narrative of modernity is that secularization and skepticism about religion both grow out of, and accelerate, a decline in religion. Accordingly, religion and secularization are often seen like two sides…
Here is the text for the handout that I passed out during my OCAMPR workshop last month: Selected Resources Cognitive Reframing Ancient Christian Wisdom and Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy: A Meeting of…
An article by Tara West for The Inquisitr makes a good case for why the Electoral College is important: “…the reasoning behind the Electoral College [is] to ensure that non-urban dwelling citizens have their…
I have really benefited from these talks presented by Father Maximos. Father Maximos shares practices we can all do to cultivate inner prayer during times of constant distractions, and he also has…
