Studies Link Facebook With Social Comparison and Depression

Among my circle of friends, I’m always the last one to find out the news. Why? Because I don’t read Facebook. Anyone who is a “friend” of mine on Facebook may find…

The Politics of Imagination

From “School Deform How Common Core Promotes Cultural Engineering by Killing the Imagination“: “To cultivate learning without cultivating the imagination is to create automatons, for it is through the imagination that we…

Challenges Facing Christians in Libya

‘What religion are you?’ Antonio Espares and his two co-workers had been abducted by masked men. His friends said that they were Muslims. Antonio could have done the same; he was a…

Democratizing Beauty

From my Colson Center article ‘Liberation from Embodiment: How the Modern World Wages War Against the Female Body‘: “Commercialism dehumanizes us through industries and technologies that democratize our concept of beauty. In…

Surrendering to Art

From ‘Literary Criticism and the Biblical Worldview (Part 2)‘ Just as a Christian approach to literature involves enjoying literary works for their own sake regardless of any functional value, so it also…

Distinguishing Interpretation from Application

From ‘Literary Criticism and Postmodernism‘: Sadly, many Christians have succumbed to a Postmodern approach to scripture. You may have been at a Bible study before where it is the custom to go…

Classical Liberalism vs. Modern Liberalism

From ‘Free Speech and Islam‘: “Classical liberalism, for all its limitations, was at least committed to defending individual freedom against the encroachments of state power. That is, after all, why it was…

The Freedom to be Bad

From ‘Anti-Discrimination Laws (Part 2)‘ The non sequitur move from “X is wrong” to “X should be illegal” usually hinges on the implicit notion that it is the State’s job to redesign…

Literature and Relativity

From ‘Literary Criticism and Postmodernism‘: Postmodernism has brought us to a position where many academics truly believe that the meaning of a text remains completely inaccessible to the reader. Literary criticism is…

Imagination and Education

From my article ‘School Deform How Common Core Promotes Cultural Engineering by Killing the Imagination‘ To cultivate learning without cultivating the imagination is to create automatons, for it is through the imagination…

Parenting is like Gardening

From ‘9 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Parenting Teenagers‘: Over a decade ago when I was struggling with parenting issues, I wrote to a well-known author for advice on…

James Jordan’s Iconoclasm and the Legitimacy of Images in Worship

In my Canterbury Letters, I interacted with a Calvinist who believed that icons were idolatrous, especially when used in worship. During the process of this dialogue I responded to the iconoclastic arguments…


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