Virtue from Aristotle to Jesus

My Contribution to the Name-Changing Debate

Various writers in Britain have recently raised the question of whether it is rational, or even ethical, for a wife to adopt the surname of her husband. It’s hard not to have…

We All Accept Gender Inequality

Although we’re supposed to be living in an age where men and women are equal, in practice no one really operates according to the principles of gender equality. Before going any further,…

Eastern Orthodoxy and the Lure of Epistemological Romanticism

Last Sunday I left a comment on a post that appeared on the Orthodox and Heterodoxy website, an Ancient Faith Radio blog that I sometimes contribute to. The post that inspired my…

Canterbury Letters

In 2011, an anonymous author published 15 fictional letters at the Creedal Christian blog, exploring a range of practical and theological questions. These letters, which were written from an imaginary Anglican named…

The Task of Christian Parents

Marriage Between Humans and Robots (full series)

The technology of social robotics is advancing so fast that there could soon be robots that are virtually indistinguishable from human beings, both in how they look and also in how they…

John Milbank and the Life of Pi: Why ‘Radical Orthodoxy’ is Neither Radical nor Orthodox

My teenage son and I sometimes get together with friends to watch movies and then analyze the worldview behind it. The last time we did this we watched Life of Pi, a…

Faithfulness

[facebook-comments-master-un]

Customized Intimacy and Social Narcissism (Marriage Between Humans and Robots, Part 4)

The first sexual revolution was about having sex. The second is about removing the vulnerability from sex. And that brings us to the topic of this final article in my ongoing series…

Marriage Between Humans and Robots (Part 3)

Part 1 of this ongoing series on human-robot marriage explored how popular opinion is gradually shifting from considering anthropological robots to be potentially hazardous to considering them as help-meets towards greater human…



Popular Posts
How to Read Books in the Spirit of Classical Christian Leisure
Contemplative Relationships
Gratitude, Love, and the Struggle for Spiritual Emotion
Activity on Twitter