Gratitude is an Emotion and a Skill

How can we cultivate the virtue of gratitude when it is lacking? Can a person train themselves to actually feel grateful? Is gratitude even a feeling, or is it an act of the will.…

Bishop Barron on the True Nature of Freedom

In a talk at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship last week, Bishop Robert Barron showed how issues of theological metaphysics (is God’s freedom ordered to his own goodness or radically contingent?) impacts…

Something Wicked Coming to a Classroom Near You

In my Salvo Column I have reported on how Walmart, GM, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and many other powerful interests, are using the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to funnel…

Why “Nous” is Difficult to Translate, and Why it Matters

Anyone who has been involved in Orthodoxy in America will likely have seen much discourse (often polemical in nature) about the “nous.” In fact, the nous plays a pivotal role in anti-western…

Touchstone Conference 2023

I just got back from working at the 2023 Touchstone Conference, where we heard from Rod Dreher, Ken Myers, Brad Littlejohn, Rusty Reno, Douglas Farrow, Adam Macleod, Thomas Buchanan, and R.V. Young.…

Ordered Goodness and the Logos

From my recent book Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation: A Manual for Recovering Gnostics Clearly, as believers we cannot embrace the givenness of things if we do not perceive the world in…

Christ, Caesar, and John MacArthur

I have been sustaining a lot of flack (including hate mail) for my review of the movie The Essential Church. This movie tells the story of John MacArthur’s fight to keep his…

Response to Paul Kingsnorth Part 2: Why We Need to Christianize AI

Since my initial response to Paul Kingsnorth earlier this year, both of us have continued reflecting on the question of whether AI is demonic. In fact, are even publishing an article by…

The Life-Changing Magic of Reframing

When the Communists took over Romania in 1944, they began rounding up Christians and sending them to prison. George Calciu was one young Christian who found himself caught in the purge. George…

Thank You, Supporters

I want to offer thanks to everyone who offers financial support to this blog and its associated email newsletter. I remain incredibly grateful to those who have contributed throughout the years via…

Logic and Online Source Evaluation

Earlier this year I finished hammering out a second Master’s degree, this time from the University of Oklahoma. I specialized in Reference Librarianship (helping people find things) and Information Literacy (teaching skills…

Antisemitism and the Gospel

Almost five years ago, Robert Bowers went into a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh and opened fire on the congregants during their Sabbath morning service. The attack left eleven people dead and six…


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