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
Matthew
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
The Attention That Remembers
“A prospect into futurity in America, is like contemplating the heavens through the telescopes of Herschell. Objects stupendous in their magnitudes and motions strike us from all quarters, and fill … Read more
The Strange Mercy of Unchanged Walls
“Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” The small … Read more
The Matter of Trust
“The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him to truth.” Lately, many of us have sensed the ground shifting beneath the institutions we once took … Read more
The Yellow Rooms and the Stained Glass
“It is well to have specifically holy places, and things, and days, for, without these, we are in danger of forgetting that the whole world is holy.” — C.S. Lewis … Read more