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March 2022

March 09, 2022

C.S. Lewis and Life’s Simple Pleasures

Beauty can invigorate our working hectic lives, if only we let it. I've spoken with...

July 2021

July 20, 2021

We Need to Better Critics of Ourselves, Others, and the Times

Critique gets bad press. We think of it in a negative light, because who likes...

April 2021

April 09, 2021

Vitalogy: Pearl Jam and the Preciousness of Life

Vitalogy. What is it? My GenX brothers and sisters, along with my own daughters, will...

March 2021

March 15, 2021

Utilitarianism and Human Flourishing: Does It Matter?

This week I'm reflecting on one of the logical outcomes of utilitarianism as it relates...

August 2017

August 26, 2017

Dunkirk: A Visceral Reaction

Dunkirk. I had mixed feelings before going. So many "cool" Christians said it was “a...

August 25, 2017

Against Rahnerian Transcendence

On the notion of subjective unity of all reality: Excerpt: Rahner's transcendental anthopology Rhaner conceived...

August 24, 2017

Transhumanism: Can’t Code This

Transhumanists do a disservice by making transhumanism—a term first coined in 1957 by Julian Huxley...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

What Sound Does Grace Make?

It took me a long time to figure out what grace is, how it works,...

April 2017

April 10, 2017

C.S. Lewis And The Value of the Imagination

I am guilty of an elaborate plot. And that is: to let me daughters (hereafter...

April 04, 2017

The Vastness of the Universe and Man’s Seeming Insignificance

Today's guest post is brought to you by Chris Van Allsburg (no, not the...

March 2017

March 20, 2017

Brave New Transhumanism World

Today's guest post is brought to you by Chris Van Allsburg (no, not the children's...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

How Beauty Connects to the Atonement

On the goodness and beauty of this world I can hardly keep still. I fidget...

December 2016

December 01, 2016

Men, Women Aren’t Interested in Your Thor-Hammer

Men don't need man-caves. We need a mountain. And we need to go to that...

November 2016

November 20, 2016

Walk in Wisdom: Guardian of Our Path

"Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path." (Proverbs 2:9, NIV)...

November 18, 2016

Under Caesar’s Sword: On a Christian Response to Persecution

Some quick facts about Christian persecution: An average of 10 people are killed daily by...

November 17, 2016

Walk in Wisdom: Life’s Secret Sauce

"Whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear or...

November 11, 2016

Christians Should Stop Ripping Each Other Apart Over Politics

I believe the Christian witness in the public square should emanate a transcendent beauty. Beauty...

November 04, 2016

Christians Should Consider a Political Posture of Silence

Silence is not just the absence of sound. It can be a posture of stillness,...

October 2016

October 24, 2016

Donald Trump and Our Pornified Society

What could be duller sounding than the word temperance? So out-of-date. So repressive. So passionless....

October 16, 2016

Why Politics of Despair Require Unfashionable Faith

On several occasions this week my wife told me, through tears, how heavy her heart...

October 13, 2016

Can We Stop Shaming One Another?

Last spring, when it looked like Mr. Trump had the nomination wrapped up, I told...

October 11, 2016

Peace, The Greeting of His Flock

The interaction on social media, and even some blogs, over the last few weeks has...

October 07, 2016

Jason Bourne V. Puddleglum: Who is the Better Hero?

Last week my wife and I enjoyed a mid-week date night. “Jason Bourne is still...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

How Should We Live?

I don't have a magic ten-step guide on how to live in this maddened beautiful...

September 20, 2016

Information Storage Under Your Skin

Source: WSJ Patrick Paumen doesn’t have to worry about forgetting his keys and being locked...

September 07, 2016

The Beautiful Is Small: Two Epiphanies From G.K. Chesterton

Rudolf Otto presents the idea of the holy in a term he suessed: the numinous. It's the...

September 06, 2016

How Data Will Destroy Human Freedom

Is it so hard to imagine tomorrow? What about the year 2100? With technology progressing...

September 03, 2016

Don’t Expect Safe Spaces

Earlier this summer I pinned an article from spiked! concerning "the Decolonise the Curriculum" campaign spreading...

September 02, 2016

What Became of the Christian Intellectuals

SOURCE: This answer will necessarily connect itself to the broader issue of the declining place...

August 2016

August 15, 2016

There Is Always Another Way

The new offering from director Mel Gibson and screenwriter Randall Wallace: HACKSAW RIDGE is...