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
Is AI Devaluing the Soul?
A New Defense for Being Human Here is a podcast that Dr. Matthew Burford was on with the very reverend Vicar Joshua Farris. You can see more of Joshua’s channel … Read more
The Ghost is Real
The rooster at Elsinore, Horatio’s clause, and the ghosts that find their way back in Shakespeare’s Hamlet does not open with the prince, the new king, or the queen. It … 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