Why Great Literature Still Matters
Dante’s Divine Comedy Why does Dante’s Divine Comedy still speak powerfully today — even in a digital age that often flattens the human experience? In this rich conversation, Dr. Jason … Read more
There Also I Meet Myself
Reminiscence, Augustine’s halls, and the last rooms of 2001: A Space Odyssey By the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dave Bowman has left the spacecraft. He stands in a … Read more
The Looking Never Stopped
What fifty-eight and fifty-three years have taught me about the kind of attention that lasts “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for … Read more
What Kind of Speech Sustains
Lewis, the second-person perspective, and the places that still remember Last week, a small, almost trivial complaint set off a larger argument. A college student associated with Turning Point USA … Read more
Ancestral Ground and the Peace of Home
Under the Round Tower William Butler Yeats ‘Although I’d lie lapped up in linenA deal I’d sweat and little earnIf I should live as live the neighbours,’Cried the beggar, Billy … Read more
On Addison’s Walk
Lewis, the second-person perspective, and the places that still remember We walked it this afternoon—my wife, our daughter, and me…..Addison’s Walk…..the footpath that is connected to C.S. Lewis and Tolkien. … Read more
One Sows and Another Reaps
The Hidden Labor of Tilling Ground in a World That Values Only the Harvest We just wrapped up another Worldview Academy at Samford through Tactical Faith. The lectures on Dante’s Divine Comedy and related topics … Read more
Making an Epic in the Age of Forgetting
Christopher Nolan, Homer, and the interior conditions for receiving a story Mary Harrington has been arguing that literacy was the first technological singularity. Long before the printing press or the … Read more
We Bring Something Irreplaceable: Sacred Space and the Image of God
Why the spaces we inhabit matter — and what we uniquely offer when we show up In our hyper-connected yet strangely disconnected age, the notion of “sacred space” can feel … Read more
Part 2: “Be Ready”
Preparing a Defense from the Hope Within In the first part, we considered what it means to honor Christ the Lord as holy in our hearts so that a living … Read more
Convictions Worth Defending
Part 1: The Hope Within You In an age of hot takes and performative certainty, what does it actually take to move people toward Christ? Not just convince their minds … Read more