Oh Fudge! Why We Swear and What it Means
There are times when, to properly name evil as evil, only the worst of words will do.
Responding to What Is a Woman?, Part 3: “It Sucks to Be a Girl”
While many of women’s problems are age-old, what’s changed is the promise of a new solution: the promise of escaping womanhood by adopting a new identity.
Responding to What Is a Woman?, Part 2: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone
Without tradition to protect us, our bodies become subject to the dynamics of the market.
Responding to What Is a Woman?, Part 1: It’s Too Simple for Words
The categories of male/female and man/woman are simply too ancient and fundamental to be tampered with without consequences.
My Dear Wormwood: A Screwtape Letter on the Art of Smartphone Addiction
Neutrality towards technology isn’t as good as enthusiasm, of course, but it’s much better than allowing the seeds of skepticism to grow.
The Making of Biblical Womanhood and the Missing Mother of God (Part 2)
Celibate monasticism was a symbol of the radical resurrection equality of men and women—of their symmetrical status as eternal brothers and sisters.
The Making of Biblical Womanhood and the Missing Mother of God (Part 1)
When the highest feminine symbol within church history was rejected as an idol, a primary example of women’s indisputable dignity disappeared too.
Station Eleven: The Virtue of Being an Artist and Answering Death with Beauty
At the heart of Station Eleven is a conflict between affirmation of Life and negation of Life. Affirmation wins.
Station Eleven: The Virtue of Risky Hospitality and Making Monsters into Friends
Rebuilding civilization requires hospitality to strangers, whether they show up cold and dirty on your doorstep, or warm and tiny in your womb.
Sex Ed Through Stories: Helping Our Kids Acquire Healthy Shame
Surrounded by a world of shameless porn and an attitude in the church that sees all shame as unhealthy, we need to remember that it is a holy thing, a beautiful thing, to blush.
Station Eleven: The Virtue of Helping Even When You Don’t Know What You’re Doing
Healing doesn’t require a degree. But it does require a willingness to share someone’s suffering.
Station Eleven: Why We Long for the Clarity of Disaster and the Safety of Home
Station Eleven focuses on the clarity that the pandemic’s disaster affords, and the way people re-make their sense of “home” after the damage.
Why You Need to Re-Watch While You Were Sleeping
While You Were Sleeping is unusual for this genre because it shows the necessity of both family and shame for the storied couple’s well-being
Dune and Disaster, or, Why Charismatic Leaders Should Come with a Warning Label
Like Paul in Dune, we can fall into the trap of moral expediency—the temptation to care more about winning than about holiness and humble service.
The Spy Film That’s Better Than Bond, or, Why I Watched Tenet Four Times
This reciprocal, mutual mentoring is possible only because of time inversion, proving that Tenet’s sci-fi premise is no mere gimmick. The story’s moral core depends on it.
Raised by Wolves: The Temptation and Trauma of an Android Eve
Raised by Wolves shows us a world where the tools we’ve fashioned (AI) are placed in the position of fashioning us.
