"Culture making requires shared goods. Culture making is people (plural) making something of the world - it is never a solitary affair. Only artifacts that leav...
Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her." ... Now it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his d...
Afternoon tea—that particularly English custom—is, I have decided, one of the best things in the world. Furthermore, I think that it is a custom well worth brin...
Hello from St Louis, Missouri! It's been an interesting trip - and this is my last leg before I head back to Boston! God has been very good to me. Also, at the ...
One of my favorite parts from The Brothers Karamazov (so far) is when Father Zosima is talking to the peasants who have come from far and wide to seek his couns...
Continuing with the theme of things my high school friends have told me:
Another friend of mine once said to me, “You know, Joe, I’m not very religious.” I r...
I think I revisit this particular poem periodically, but it struck me differently this time, this time because while I agree with Larkin, I also profoundly disa...
Many Christians I know will judge behavior with the question, “What would Jesus do?” In my church, I have heard a different question more often: “Would you do t...
In this post and the next, I want to think through some of the potential strengths and weaknesses that would result from intentionally seeking to produce “bilin...
The Sunday Link Lovefest continues!
Darthmouth Apologia - Atheism & Natural Theology - Peter Blair attends and reports upon a reading by Rebecca Goldstein,...
