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March 2025

March 12, 2025

The Paradox of Big Charity

Imagine that you make a fine salary employed by a multibillion dollar charitable organization whose...

November 2024

November 18, 2024

My Review of Rod Dreher’s Living in Wonder

In the November 2024 issue of World Magazine is my review of Rod Dreher's new...

July 2024

July 11, 2024

Did ChatGPT concede that there exists a First Cause?

In a 2002 debate book he did with J. J. Smart--Atheism and Theism--the Scottish philosopher...

September 2023

September 01, 2023

What’s So Special About Religious Liberty? Law, Philosophy, and Serving God

Earlier this year I published an article in the Civil Rights Law Journal, a perodical...

July 2023

July 20, 2023

Trueman: A Notre Dame Professor Sues the Student Paper

Grove City College historical theologian, Carl R. Trueman, has published an interesting opinion piece in the...

July 16, 2023

ChatGPT and University Life

In a little over a month is the beginning of the new school year. One...

October 2022

October 19, 2022

Religious Freedom Institute report: Religious Pro-Life Americans Under Attack

You can find the report here. The abstract states: A range of dangerous actors...

August 2022

August 08, 2022

Advice Gianni Russo (aka “Carlo Rizzi”) once gave me

As a kid I worked in my folks' candy store, Sweets of Las Vegas. I...

July 2022

July 04, 2022

My contribution to The New Apologetics: Defending the Faith in a Post-Christian Era

I am happy to report the release of a new book published by Word on...

May 2022

May 26, 2022

New Working Paper: “What’s So Special About Religious Liberty? Law, Philosophy, and Serving God”

On March 24-25, 2022, I participated in the conference: "Beyond `Defensive Crouch,' Religious Freedom." It...

May 20, 2022

My review of Michael Ward’s After Humanity, a guide to C. S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man

Many readers are familiar with C. S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man. Last summer Word...

February 2022

February 27, 2022

Review of Maureen Condic’s Untangling twinning: what science tells us about the nature of human embryos

The journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics just released online my review of Maureen L. Condic's...

March 2021

March 23, 2021

Academic Freedom of Alliance

I am happy to announce the launching of the Academic Freedom Alliance, a new group...

January 2021

January 29, 2021

Baylor Provost Defends Free Speech Against Cancel Culture

We recently had an unfortunate incident at Baylor in which a small group of students...

November 2020

November 18, 2020

August 2020

August 28, 2020

The brilliance of St. Augustine on grace and free will

Today, August 28, is the Feast Day of St. Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430). The most...

August 05, 2020

License to Kill – Bob Dylan on David Letterman in 1984

Lyrics follow Man thinks ’cause he rules the earth he can do with it as...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

New Article: “Moral Status and the Architects of Principlism” (The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy)

I am happy to report that I was informed by Oxford University Press that an...

July 29, 2020

Too Good to Pass Up: Black Intellectual Roundtable Podcast

I came across this wonderful podcast hosted by Bret Weinstein, a biologist and evolutionary theorist...

July 17, 2020

Important Thread on Free Speech and Cancel Culture by Oxford Politics Professor, Teresa M. Bejan

In a previous post, I opined a bit about cancel culture. However, I highly recommend the...

October 2015

October 06, 2015

Please consider helping newborn Jackson Yancey

My graduate assistant, Hilary Yancey, and her husband, Preston, need our generosity. They are proud...

April 2015

April 10, 2015

Forthcoming book: Taking Rites Seriously

You can read all about it here.

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Protestant Theologian Stanley Hauerwas on Reformation Sunday

Stanley Hauerwas in one of America's truly great public intellectuals, and perhaps the most influential...

October 26, 2013

Caution! Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus” is historically flawed

Read the review of the book over at The Catholic Thing. The reviewer is David G....

October 25, 2013

Redskins, Racial Slurs, and Social Justice

That's the title of my latest installment over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

October 21, 2013

The Underground Thomist: J. Budziszewski’s scholarly website

J. Budziszewski, professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, has a new...

October 16, 2013

George Weigel on the upcoming double papal canonizations

Weigel writes: "I doubt that Pope Francis has heard of Ernie Banks, the Hall of Fame...

August 2013

August 08, 2013

Roger McGuinn’s cool blog

Just came across this blog by former member of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn. It includes...

May 2013

May 05, 2013

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March 01, 2012