Note: In an effort to expand the reach and influence of poetry in my life, as well as in the lives of those around me, I have decided that for the next few months I will be sharing a poem … Continue reading Poem of the Week: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth

Back in April of this year I watched with great interest as Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, amid growing concerns over Facebook’s commandeering of user data and overall privacy considerations. While I … Continue reading The Logic of Blue

I recently had the opportunity to write an essay for my friends over at Forefront, a (mostly) local network of artists of all varieties who are committed to strengthening the Christian presence in the arts. Their blog is a unique … Continue reading Forefront Essay

Much ink hath been spilt in recent years over questions regarding technology and its proper place in our world. This clash has produced much that is helpful and insightful, and also quite a lot of useless blots. What is indeed … Continue reading On the Neutrality of Technology

Oliver O’Donovan, writing in 1984 about our society’s impulse towards the attempted mastery of every nook and cranny of the natural world via technology: “The relation of human beings to their own bodies, we might say, is the last frontier … Continue reading The Last Frontier of Nature

There is a vein of thought, peculiar to the modern mind, that rebels against the tendency within classic literature to often employ a large volume of words. More precisely, it protests an engagement with what it supposes to be archaic … Continue reading In Defense of Wordiness

(This is the third installment in a three part series highlighting the correspondence of four prominent historical figures. The first two can be found here and here) Albert Einstein: A Mind for the Ages “A new idea comes suddenly and in a … Continue reading A Sacred Exchange (Pt. 3)

(This is the second installment in a three part series highlighting the correspondence of four prominent historical figures. The introductory post can be found here.) The difficulty of settling how to properly order our four characters of interest is a … Continue reading A Sacred Exchange (Pt. 2)

Much has often been made of the importance of imagery in our time. An explosion of various social contexts and mediums which deal increasingly – and almost exclusively – in the currency of pictures has introduced a snowballing effect, producing … Continue reading A Sacred Exchange (Pt. 1)

Although the address at Gettysburg given by Lincoln in November of 1863 was crafted for the singular purpose of dedicating the cemetery at that battlefield, its reach far exceeds anything he could have envisioned. The words he uttered in such … Continue reading The Last Full Measure of Devotion