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
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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
Real Presence – Substack
My daughter, Dr. Ian McGilchrist and a morning in Savannah, GA We walked the brick streets of Savannah beneath the live oaks, my daughter Emily’s hand in mine. Spanish moss … Read more
The Man in the Chest: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, C.S. Lewis’s “Men Without Chests,” and Iain McGilchrist on How We’ve Lost the Human Heart
A 1948 thriller exposes a chilling modern experiment: what happens when intellect rules without moral feeling? Two prophetic thinkers—Lewis and McGilchrist—help us see why the horror feels so close…
Martin Shaw and Justin Brierley Recap
Recently, a friend of mine told me that I remind him of Tom Bombadil from “The Fellowship of the Ring.” I was taken aback because, while I have always loved … Read more