From my Colson Center article ‘What the Church Can Learn from the Mall‘: “…the marketing industry behind the mall has understood one basic fact of human nature: we tend to follow after…
Every year the Orthodox church has a great feast for the Elevation of the Holy Cross. During this feast we process with the cross and kiss the cross and sing songs to…
From my Colson Center article ‘Hollowing Out the Habits of Attention (2)‘: …the main reading problem we face as a society is not simply that people aren’t reading enough; rather, the real…
Since I stopped working for Christian Voice earlier this year I completely lost interest in politics. Politics is important, so maybe I should be more interested in it, but I’m just not…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
