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When the Story Stops Telling Itself: A New Letter from C.S. Lewis 27 Aug 2013 | 01:41 pm
As the author of the bestselling children’s stories The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis inspired many young readers to take up the pen and write him in response. And they did not write in vain. It ...
An Open Letter to College Freshmen 26 Aug 2013 | 04:16 pm
Dear College Freshmen, Congratulations on getting into the university of your dreams. And if it’s not of your dreams, congratulations anyway. You have the opportunity before you to join the 10% of ...
Beyond Eclectic Christianity 21 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
To say that I come from a mixed background is an understatement. I was raised in the Independent Christian Church movement, discipled in a rising megachurch run by one of the current promoters of Radi...
On Orthodoxy, Chapters Two and Three 21 Aug 2013 | 03:39 pm
Trevin Wax and I are keeping up our conversation about Chesterton’s Orthodoxy. We’re bouncing back over to his place this time around, and I encourage you to chime in with your comments there. The p...
Spurgeon’s Tea Party Politics 20 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
This week, the Reformed Evangelical blogosphere was rocked* by the stunning revelation that their hipster-beard-wearing, homiletical heartthrob Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a pinko Commie.** (* or at ...
A Radical Anthropology and Imagining our Political Future 16 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
James Poulos, one of my favorite political writers, has been hammering away recently at our need to frame our political conversations around anthropology and imagination first and policy specifics sec...
On Authority, Tradition, and Millennial Evangelicals 15 Aug 2013 | 03:42 pm
Over the weekend I started reading Roger Scruton’s The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope, which is like everything Scruton writes: both instructive and engaging. It was this bit, however...
Reading Through Orthodoxy: The Introduction 14 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
In the first post of this series, Trevin Wax and I detailed what we saw as the merits of G.K. Chesterton and his book Orthodoxy. We also invited you to read along and discuss the latest section of the...
Why ‘The Family’ Matters in Economics 13 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Nick Schulz is frustrated. He’s frustrated that economists talk about the role of institutions in the American economy, yet ignore the most fundamental one of them all: the family. With a career built...
Social Justice Reconsidered: Report from the Philadelphia Society 12 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
I recently sat in on the Philadelphia Society’s annual meeting, an extended examination of the term “social justice.” In some ways, I like the term, given the way it is often used to remind us that ev...
