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Matt Boulter

The Rev. Dr. Matt Boulter is the rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in east central Austin, Texas. A former Presbyterian minister with a Ph.D. in philosophy, Matt’s great love is reaching the city with the love, the good news, of Jesus Christ.

Byung Chuhl Han & the Disappearance of Rituals: Diagnosing Our Neoliberal Hellscape?

Rituals, while radically non-utilitarian, can paradoxically serve as tools with which we can resist an empty culture. They help us cope.

Haidt & Rauch: The Constitution of Knowledge

In the second chapter of the first book of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle says that “the most governing and most masterful” human pursuit or discipline...

Patristic Sex and Society

When you hear the name Michel Foucault, what do you think of? For many younger denizens of our contemporary culture wars — especially if they...

The Rhythm of the Rector

I am 18 months into my first stint as an Episcopal rector. I serve a small, urban parish that also has an acclaimed preschool, but...

Defending the Inward Turn

A Critical Review of Carl Trueman’s The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self In an early scene in “The Foundling,” episode four of The...

Longing for a Re-enchanted World:

David Bentley Hart’s Roland in Moonlight When, several years ago, I read Jean Grondin’s intellectual biography Gadamer, about the eponymous German continental philosopher, I was...

Christianity as Social Justice? Thanks, Kant.

For many Episcopalians, among the most beloved sections of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer is the Baptismal Covenant, rehearsed and proclaimed in the...

Drawn into Beauty (with Peterson, Barron, and Augustine)

In a Covenant piece I wrote in 2018, I claimed that readers of this website should pay attention to Jordan Peterson because, among other...

Christian Memory and Confederate Statues: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet

Discussing Christopher Nolan’s 2020 Tenet is a lot like discussing the book of Revelation: the “text” is so complicated and apparently convoluted that you...

Augustine, Bonaventure, & Climate-pocalypse

Is it just me, or are we currently living through a chapter of human history which is unprecedentedly spooky? Unrelenting forest fires in California...