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…

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…



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