From my article ‘Hollowing Out the Habits of Attention Part 4‘: Thankfully God has given you a tool for controlling your brain and fasting from toxic thinking. That tool is called the…
One of the factors behind the American fast-food movement is the assumption that eating should be as easy as possible and that the ideal meal is one that requires a minimum amount…
I’m the sort of person who gets big ideas and sets big goals. The only problem with big goals is that they’re incredibly hard to reach. Well, that’s not actually true. Big…
“I think I might stop being a Christian,” my friend said, a few minutes after comfortably situating himself in my office. “Why?” I asked. “Have you stopped believing in God?” My friend…
From ‘How Peace of Mind is a Skill That Can Be Developed With Practice‘: “The average person experiences thousands of thoughts every day, most of which flow into the mind without us…
From my TSM article ‘Gratitude as a Way of Seeing‘: “Gratitude is not a type of feel-good escapism whereby we tell ourselves that things are good when they are not; rather it…
I’ve resumed my column at the Colson Center with an article published last Tuesday titled ‘Struggle and the Christian Life.’ In this article I’ve tried to continue to chip away at the…
Last month Rod Dreher wrote a post for the American Conservative titled ‘Orthodoxy Is Hard. Thank God.’ Dreher, a convert to Eastern Orthodoxy from Catholicism, reflected on how hard Orthodoxy is, particularly…
From one of my recent TSM posts: “We all have things we can complain about from problems in our health to family issues to work-related stress. It is true that sometimes we…
Last night my wife and I finished listening to a talk given by Father Seraphim Rose (1934-1982) on the topic of developing an Orthodox worldview. (The talk is available on Youtube while…
From Part 4 of my interview with Dr. Taylor on Brain Fitness: “Without intellectual curiosity learning is boring. Without intellectual curiosity the justification for knowledge ultimately rests in pragmatic concerns outside the…
Saint John Chrysostom Saint John Chrysostom has an excellent sermon titled ‘A Treatise to Prove that No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself.’ In this sermon he shows…
