(I wrote the following post a few days before the tragedy in Paris, which is timely in light of what I said about the safety of our middle-class homes. The thought-experiments that…
In my Colson Center article ‘The Meaning of the Gospel‘, I have suggested that it is a mistake to use the phrase “the Gospel” as little more than a short-hand for the…
Dorothy Sayers, one of the heroes who features in my book Saints and Scoundrels, had an outlook that was particularly “sacramental.” Her sacramental vision enabled her to assert that it is possible…
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…
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…
