In Robert MacFarlane’s article ‘Landspeak‘, he describes some of the changes being made in the Oxford Junior Dictionary. A sharp-eyed reader noticed that there had been a culling of words concerning nature. Under…
From my Colson Center article ‘The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars‘: In talking about sexual morality, it is typical to find pastors, Christian spokespersons and lay people alike, operating as…
From my article ‘The New Couplings: Are Human & Robot Weddings Next?‘: “Sociable robots promise to avoid the messiness of flesh-and-blood relationships through a kind of ‘customized intimacy.’ Imagine having a relationship…
I have written before about how the way we use our brain actually alters its neurocircuitry. But the same principle also applies to culture. We now know that cultural assumptions, norms and…
From my Colson Center article ‘Hollowing Out the Habits of Attention (Part 2)‘: …the main reading problem we face as a society is not simply that people aren’t reading enough; rather, the…
In my earlier post on parenting teens, I quoted Saint Porphyrios in words that are worth sharing on their own: What saves and makes for good children is the life of the…
“When I hear Christians say that watching sex scenes in movies does not affect them, I sometimes wonder if the shoe isn’t actually on the other foot. If someone can honestly claim…
The prospect of humans developing love relationships with computer-programed robots is being heralded by a number of academics as the natural next step in the evolution of both computers and human beings.…
In a post on my old blog, I talked about the connection between modesty and fulfillment. Here’s what I observed: Some women have told me that modesty is important to them, not…
“The implicit epistemology of the heroic world is a thoroughgoing realism.” Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (p. 129). “Suppose we were wanderers who could not live in blessedness except at home, miserable in…
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