Gratefulness and The Rising Baseline

Ever since I read The Way of the Pilgrim last year and received “a word” from Archimandrite Zacharias at the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Essex England, I’ve…

Feminism and the Body

In her book Eve’s Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body, Lilian Calles Barger shares some of the ways modern women are deeply troubled by the fact of their embodiment. She…

Alison Ledgerwood on Cognitive Reframing

Below is a fascinating Ted Talk about cognitive reframing, presented by the psychologist Alison Ledgerwood. She explains how the human mind naturally finds it easy to reframe positive events in negative terms,…

The Ironies of Household Technology

Ever since last year when I read that household appliances haven’t made life easier for women, I’ve been wanting to dig a little deeper into the subject. So while staying with some…

Parenting Teenagers is Like Gardening

From my post ‘9 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Parenting Teenagers‘: Parenting teenagers like tending a garden. If you are a gardener, the goal is not necessarily to have…

Reading Habits of a Recovering Pragmatist

I’d like to take this opportunity to recommend some good novels that have recently blessed me. But first, a few words about my approach to reading in general. As far as my…

Relationships and Attentiveness

From my Colson Center article ‘Hollowing out the Habits of Attention (part 3)‘: For relationships to be healthy, we need to know how to suspend what we think and put ourselves in…

D.B. Hart on the Evolution of a Grand Mythology

From the Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart’s essay ‘The Myth of Schism‘: In truth, the most unpleasant aspect of the current state of the division between East and West is the…

Stories and Wisdom

From my Colson Center article ‘Fiction and the Christian Faith‘ The type of wisdom we gain from story likewise arises from grappling with the complexities and ambiguities of experience, but in this…

Christianity and the Playground Mentality

From ‘The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars‘: Among evangelicals from legalistic backgrounds [we often encounter] the notion that the only objective criteria for making decisions is sin-avoidance. In areas where…

Teleology as the Answer to Subjectivism

From ‘Food and Teleology‘: …there is a whole realm inquiry that is prior to questions of sin, namely questions about what is most fitting according to the nature of a thing. To…

Reading Books and Reading People

From ‘Hollowing out the Habits of Attention (3)’: Developing the habits of mind necessary for reading good literary works reverses the tendency of our digital distractions and cultivates some of the same…


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