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…
This post has been removed following its publication in the Volume 29, Issue 1 of Touchstone Magazine.
Elder Joachim Parr has so many good teaching videos on Youtube. On one level his teaching is very simple, but on another level it is incredibly deep and profound. One of the…
From my Colson Center article ‘The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars‘: Creation expresses God’s nature; as such, the ordering of reality creates the context in which God’s commands can be…
From The Canterbury Letters: If we have a cognitivist anthropology of the human person, then we will see the job of the minister as being first and foremost to educate a person’s…
