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Using Cultural Apologetics and Story-Telling to Reclaim The Beauty of Struggle

Life, Longing, and Ladders in the Land of Shadows

St. Paisios on Busyness

Virtue and Classical Education: A Commencement Address to a Graduating Class

The Power of Baby Steps in a Superman Culture

8 Gnostic Myths You May Have Imbibed

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8 Gnostic Myths You May Have Imbibed

I’ve recently been researching the history of Gnosticism and I am struck by the number of Gnostic tendencies that the modern church has imbibed without realizing it. This post assumes readers will…

A new Symbolic World article by Robin Phillips.
Technology and the Story of Redemption: Being the People of God in a Mechanized World: https://t.co/YCdAt8oC83
— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) May 24, 2024

Check out the latest Symbolic World blog post,
The Artistry of the Machine in the Empire of Desire, by Robin Phillips: https://t.co/kHFwnMYcPZ
— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) May 31, 2023

The intellectual life is like a love affair, or like prayer. There are many economic and health benefits to a love relationship, yet if a man holds his wife’s hand merely to experience those benefits, then we rightly say this is perverse. https://t.co/vM0ulUmY0s
— Salvo (@salvomagazine) December 7, 2020

More than Schooling: The Perils of Pragmatism in Christian Attitudes Toward the Liberal Arts by Robin Phillips https://t.co/wh5X6dP63s
— Touchstone (@touchstonemag) October 8, 2018

Disclosure on social media merely buffers us against our real feelings, since it enables us to broadcast a curated version of our emotions in much the same way that pornography presents a curated version of the physical body.https://t.co/KLhMtlFOyZ
— Salvo (@salvomagazine) May 22, 2021