God, Sex, and the Restless Hearts of Fleabag
Fleabag paints a nuanced portrait of the soul’s condition in the secular age.
The Neurobiology of Old and New Creation:
Damasio’s presentation of recent findings in evolutionary brain science bears significantly on epistemology, ethics, and eschatology.
How to Save a Dying Church
If you’re a Christian in the West chances are your church is in decline. And if you are a mainline Christian in the West well, you had a good run.
Katherine Hepburn and Zeal
This is the fourth post in a series in which I explore what classic film actresses in iconic roles can teach us — and, more particularly, my fast-growing daughter — about the seven classic virtues. These posts ... Read More...
Where is Strengthening to be Found?
Return of the Strong Gods is for the most part a critique of American social and political thought since World War II.
David Bentley Hart has Written a Silly Book
David Bentley Hart’s That All Shall Be Saved is a regrettably unflinching reminder that ego, not piety, is the ground of much modern theology.
Art Versus the Machine: What Tolkien Might Say to Extinction Rebellion
Those who care deeply about the fate of the planet would do worse than to take Tolkien’s Elves as their model, building communities marked by artistry, craftsmanship, husbandry, wisdom, and delight. This will involve equal parts remembering, stability, humility, and self-denial.
Sympathy for the Devil: The Joker, the Loneliness Epidemic and the Mission of the Church
As a film, The Joker is exceptionally good at portraying this sin-ravaged world — a bleak, decadent civilization where the bonds of mutual care have come entirely undone.