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June 2014

June 07, 2014

Ignorance: A Blessing

There are some things that I know with certainty. The sum of two and three...

May 2014

May 06, 2014

The Empathy Exams

Leslie Jamison’s essays in The Empathy Exams ask – and begin to answer –...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

The Doomsday Machine

My wife and I did not see—and have no plans to see—R.I.P.D., The Lone Ranger,...

April 03, 2014

The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

Paul Bogard’s The End of Night has as much to say about the night...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Winter’s Humbling

Cuttings of yellow forsythia bloom on my coffee table as March threatens its last (fingers...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

The Ear of the Heart

A friend recently gave me the autobiography of a Benedictine nun at the Abbey of...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Art and The Mysterious Beyond

A couple of posts over at “Good Letters” have thoughtfully addressed art’s purpose and how...

May 08, 2013

The Real Case Against the Suburbs, or, How Ought Christians to Think About the Common Good?

Over at Mere O, Keith Miller has been kind enough to respond to a piece...

April 2013

April 16, 2013

The Decline of Dawkins and the Dawn of Deliberative Doubt

In March 2012, a crowd of atheists flocked to the National Mall in Washington, DC...

March 2013

March 23, 2013

Introducing the Sacrallennials

Over at Juicy Ecumenism, guest poster Thomas Holgrave (of the worth-checking-out blog The Hipster...

March 18, 2013

What to Do About Dualisms?

Like many American Christians, I grew up with a bunch of dualisms: we need...

March 14, 2013

The Beast in Its Tracks

I found myself dreading the release of Josh Ritter’s latest album, which is strange, because...

February 2013

February 24, 2013

A Puritan and a Biologist on the Appeal of Beauty

Lance Hosey’s opinion piece from last week’s New York Times carries the promising headline “Why...

February 13, 2013

House of Cards

House of Cards is a new American political drama released on Netflix instead of a...