From ‘The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars‘: Among evangelicals from legalistic backgrounds [we often encounter] the notion that the only objective criteria for making decisions is sin-avoidance. In areas where…
From ‘Food and Teleology‘: …there is a whole realm inquiry that is prior to questions of sin, namely questions about what is most fitting according to the nature of a thing. To…
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…
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;…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
