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May 2014

May 16, 2014

What We Talk About When We Talk About Ambition

When it comes to ambition, it sometimes seems that feeding our egos means starving our...

February 2014

February 11, 2014

Venmo and Friendship

I'm a fan of Venmo, an app that makes it incredibly easy to send...

January 2014

January 09, 2014

Prodigal City

The bankruptcy of Detroit is a consequence of multi-faceted social problems that defy simple...

September 2013

September 06, 2013

The Economy of Desire

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer admonishes Christians who have bought into the theology of...

May 2013

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...

May 02, 2013

The “New Legalism” Gets Some Things Right

On the Acton Blog, Anthony Bradley argues that "radical" or "missional" Christianity, of the kind...

April 2013

April 19, 2013

The Economic and Political Roots of Our Friendship Crisis

Yesterday Jordan Monge asked the question “why don’t we talk about friendship more?” The post...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

The Commodification of the Written Word and the Future of Journalism

In a blog post published last week by marketing giant HubSpot, CMO Mike Volpe explained...

March 24, 2013

Avoiding Civilizational Hard Ceilings

I recently wrote about an interview I conducted with sociologist Robert Bellah in preparation...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

“There’s Nothing Wrong with America that Another Depression Couldn’t Fix”

Before yesterday, I would have thought my chances of encountering a popular rap song...

February 08, 2013

The Ubiquity of Mental Illness

In a recent Grantland piece, Chuck Klosterman wrote about the strange saga of Royce White,...