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July 2018

July 10, 2018

A New Direction

Focus is a relief. To me it is, anyway. For a long time, my blogging...

July 02, 2018

Tonight I Was Tempted to Murder

My wife, a professional musician, called me from rehearsal. I could instantly tell from...

May 2018

May 07, 2018

Episode Eight of The Dean Abbott Podcast is Now Available

A new episode of The Dean Abbott Podcast has been published today. You can find...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Episode Seven of The Dean Abbott Podcast Is Now Available

A new episode of The Dean Abbott Podcast has just been published. In this episode,...

April 17, 2018

The Quandary of the Evangelical Man

For a long time, the most desired quality in an Evangelical youth pastor was that...

April 03, 2018

The Low Social Status of Christian Belief Is Part of a Larger Problem

Modern people live in the aftermath of a terrible rupture, in a time radically disconnected...

April 02, 2018

Episode Five of “The Dean Abbott Podcast” Is Now Available

Another episode of The Dean Abbott Podcast is now available. Find it here. In this...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

Traditional Christian Belief and Low Social Status: Four Responses

I never got to work at L’abri , and I blame John Kerry. See, when...

March 21, 2018

Something for World Poetry Day

Today is World Poetry Day. I am an ardent lover of good poetry. I have...

March 15, 2018

My Recent Encounter with Toxic Masculinity

What We Saw Down on the Farm My wife and I took our girls to...

March 05, 2018

Episode Three of “The Dean Abbott Podcast” is Now Available

Another episode of The Dean Abbott Podcast is now available. Find it here. My guest...

February 2018

February 19, 2018

Episode Two of “The Dean Abbott Podcast” is Now Available

The second episode of "The Dean Abbott Podcast" has been published this morning. In this...

January 2018

January 15, 2018

On the Eating of Laundry Soap: The Tide Pod Challenge

Years ago, my wife and I attended an exhibit of the original drawings of cartoons...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

You Are Only A Unit of Production

Sometimes, the evening just calls for pizza. We recently had an evening just like this....

April 2017

April 25, 2017

My Appearance on the Mark Baxter Podcast

Last week, Mark Baxter and I sat down for a long chat on his podcast....

February 2017

February 01, 2017

Why People Hate Corporations: A Personal Example

The hard drive on our MacBook died Monday night. Every time we buy a new...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

Twitter Has Made Me a Better Man

We like, sometimes, to imagine we are suited to life alone. We like to think...

January 18, 2017

Stay Inside Yourself

When the fictional Dillon Panthers are on the verge of winning a state championship in...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

On The Temptations of Politics

Next to the defeat of Clinton and the consequent derailment of her globalist, left-wing agenda,...

November 11, 2016

Daddy Issues, or How to Make the World Safe for Femininity

People ask me what it's like to be the only man in a home with...

October 2016

October 06, 2016

Taking Stock: Reflections on a Year of Blogging

People sometimes say blogging is dead. They may as well say writing is dead' or...

September 2016

September 23, 2016

The Charlotte Riots and Fatherlessness

Sometimes, serious problems can be so widespread we learn not to see them. Such is...

September 05, 2016

Should You Be Content Where You Are?

We’re driven. We want to do more, see more, have more. We want to leave...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

Three Questions We Must Ask Ourselves, Part Three

Our days are happier when we use them to build something more durable than mere...

October 2015

October 16, 2015

Your Nine-Year-Old Doesn’t Need to be a Sexy Cat

One function of the home is to hold the world at bay. Here, in the...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

We Romanticize Farms because Farms are Romantic

My parents’ neighbors have a rooster. I know this because, on recent visit there, I...