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…

Aesthetic Militarization in a Post-Ironic Society

The Parental Aim

From my post ‘What Science Has to Say About Heavy-Handed Parenting‘: “As parents we are aiming not just for isolated results in particular situations, otherwise being heavy-handed would be a good solution;…

Pragmatism and Literature

From ‘More than Schooling The Perils of Pragmatism in Christian Attitudes Toward the Liberal Arts‘: Appreciating that some artifacts are good in themselves, and not merely because of what they do for…

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Why Perfectionism is the Enemy of Classical Education

From my post ‘Becoming Classically Educated‘: “A philosophy professor once told me that certain British corporations were hiring philosophers because philosophers tend to be able to very quickly grasp which things are…

Learning to Just Be

From “More than Schooling: The Perils of Pragmatism in Christian Attitudes Toward the Liberal Arts“: Being able to just be in the presence of beauty is central to coming to know God…

Evidentialial Apologetics vs. Presuppositional Apologetics

From ‘The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars‘: In its worst forms, the rejection of evidentialism was often proffered on the spurious ground that one must first buy into the whole…

The God of the Ordinary

From my article ‘Your Day Job is Your Ministry‘: When the apostle Paul was writing to Titus, he told him a specific message to give to bondservants. Paul said that “in everything…

Parenting and the Goldilocks Principle

From my post ‘What Science Has to Say About Heavy-Handed Parenting‘: “…we often see similarities in the outcome of children whose parents who are too loose and children whose parents are overly…

Is ‘Reformed Catholicity’ Sectarian?

From ‘Peter Leithart on the End of Protestantism‘: [The claims made by those advancing ‘Reformed Catholicity’ imply] that true catholicity is only realized by Protestants in the twentieth-century onwards, which is (historically…


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