The Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis, were a series of letters purportedly written from a senior devil to his nephew, a tempter working on a human “patient”. Here...
There was a holiday this weekend. Oh, it wasn’t one of the ultimately significant holidays of the year—not like Christmas or Easter—but it has importance in its...
If you live in the Boston area and you have a strong constitution, you ought to see Sleep No More, the American Repertory Theater’s adaptation of Macbeth. The s...
The newest issue of the Ichthus is out (go read it if you haven’t already!), and it’s brimming with interesting articles. I was especially fascinated by Stanley...
Life would be so much simpler were it not for the Bible. There are, of course, the obvious difficulties that Scripture gives us—all that about loving God and lo...
From what I’ve heard, this week has been a hard one for almost everyone. Midterms are starting; the necessity of finding a J-term program is looming; the first ...
Joseph Haydn was not a genius, Professor Robert Levin told our class. He was not born with the automatic brilliance of a Mozart or a Beethoven. He did not have ...
Adultery is a great evil. This is an inescapable conclusion. And it is not a new conclusion to me—every reading of the Ten Commandments, every discussion of mar...
It was Nietzsche who said it first, but it’s a common thought—Christianity is nihilistic. People may not express themselves in so many words, but who hasn’t hea...
I recently discovered a wonderful blog, written by Stanley Fish for the New York Times. The first article that I read, “Why Do Writers Write?”, was an intriguin...
