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Join me for the Advent prayer challenge: Pray only with digital versions of attractive celebrities on your favorite app. No need to ever associate with regular Christians or darken the door of an actual church building again. Best of all we’ll call it “spiritual renewal”!
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Join me for the Advent prayer challenge: Pray only with digital versions of attractive celebrities on your favorite app. No need to ever associate with regular Christians or darken the door of an actual church building again. Best of all we’ll call it “spiritual renewal”!
For Chicagoland locals, I worked up this fancy graphic (AI free!) for my talk entitled Miracles on Roosevelt Road... Hope to see you next Monday Dec. 8 at 7pm at the @WheatonPL (online or in person, but please do register at this link) www.wheatonlibrary.org/event/miracl...
December 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
For Chicagoland locals, I worked up this fancy graphic (AI free!) for my talk entitled Miracles on Roosevelt Road... Hope to see you next Monday Dec. 8 at 7pm at the @WheatonPL (online or in person, but please do register at this link) www.wheatonlibrary.org/event/miracl...
I spent 4 days at the Orthodox Academy of Crete where the Russians famously backed out of the Holy and Great Council of 2016 (presaging the war). Among the participants was a former young Russian monk (an Augustine scholar) who was defrocked for opposing the same war. He can’t go home.
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I spent 4 days at the Orthodox Academy of Crete where the Russians famously backed out of the Holy and Great Council of 2016 (presaging the war). Among the participants was a former young Russian monk (an Augustine scholar) who was defrocked for opposing the same war. He can’t go home.
Subscribe to The Critic. That is all.
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Subscribe to The Critic. That is all.
Love letter to Canada with a crooked bow tie, being my Larkin-Stuart lecture last week at the University of Toronto's Trinity College www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhH...
Larkin-Stuart Lecture featuring Prof. Matthew J. Milliner
YouTube video by Trinity College in the University of Toronto
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November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Love letter to Canada with a crooked bow tie, being my Larkin-Stuart lecture last week at the University of Toronto's Trinity College www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhH...
Someone at a conference today began a question by saying, “We are academics, we don’t believe in God.” It was so cute! We snickered politely and carried on.
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Someone at a conference today began a question by saying, “We are academics, we don’t believe in God.” It was so cute! We snickered politely and carried on.
Report from Toronto: growing majors at the U of T include religion, philosophy, and art history (told to me by a prof). Anglican vicar says students are showing up at church out of the blue saying, “I need meaning in my life.”
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Report from Toronto: growing majors at the U of T include religion, philosophy, and art history (told to me by a prof). Anglican vicar says students are showing up at church out of the blue saying, “I need meaning in my life.”
You wanna know who is a real scholar-pastor of faithful integrity in a great North American city? Jason Byassee.
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
You wanna know who is a real scholar-pastor of faithful integrity in a great North American city? Jason Byassee.
You wanna know who is a real scholar-pastor of faithful integrity in a great North American city? Jason Byassee.
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
You wanna know who is a real scholar-pastor of faithful integrity in a great North American city? Jason Byassee.
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“I don’t need to “deconstruct” my faith because I have read Dionysius the Areopagite, who does such a better job of that than modern Christians, all the while pointing me to the un-deconstructible mystery of Christ.”
Evangelicalism: A Love Story
While many have left evangelicalism behind, others have benefited from the quiet faithfulness of everyday evangelicals.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“I don’t need to “deconstruct” my faith because I have read Dionysius the Areopagite, who does such a better job of that than modern Christians, all the while pointing me to the un-deconstructible mystery of Christ.”
“'Would you feel better if I’d shown up wearing a Proton Pack?' I asked." via the ever delightful Mockingcast mbird.com/everyday/exp...
Exponents of Falsehood - Mockingbird
An Absolutely True Story of an Exorcism
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November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“'Would you feel better if I’d shown up wearing a Proton Pack?' I asked." via the ever delightful Mockingcast mbird.com/everyday/exp...
Like I said, enjoying the resurgence of classical theism.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Like I said, enjoying the resurgence of classical theism.
I’m very much enjoying living through the inevitable resurgence of “classical theism” (or whatever one chooses to call it).
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I’m very much enjoying living through the inevitable resurgence of “classical theism” (or whatever one chooses to call it).
George MacDonald to John Ruskin, improving on Julian of Norwich (which is no easy task): “I am more and more convinced that all is on the way to being well, with a wellness to which there is no other way than this, where you and I are walking.” www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
Holding the actual letters!
YouTube video by Malcolm Guite
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November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
George MacDonald to John Ruskin, improving on Julian of Norwich (which is no easy task): “I am more and more convinced that all is on the way to being well, with a wellness to which there is no other way than this, where you and I are walking.” www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
“It speaks volumes that leaders in this church supported Perpetua’s writing to the point of saving this document, which would have been easy to destroy. Instead, they edited it after her martyrdom, published it, and made sure it received a reading.” -NadyaWilliams t.co/R8UPbfWLQv
https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/sarah-ruden-perpetua-review/
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November 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“It speaks volumes that leaders in this church supported Perpetua’s writing to the point of saving this document, which would have been easy to destroy. Instead, they edited it after her martyrdom, published it, and made sure it received a reading.” -NadyaWilliams t.co/R8UPbfWLQv
"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings." -John Ruskin, Unto This Last (Ruskin's Collected Works, vol. 17, p. 105)
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings." -John Ruskin, Unto This Last (Ruskin's Collected Works, vol. 17, p. 105)
G.K. Chesterton's first reaction to neon advertising on Broadway: "What a magnificent spectacle for a man who cannot read."
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
G.K. Chesterton's first reaction to neon advertising on Broadway: "What a magnificent spectacle for a man who cannot read."
John of Apamea (a.k.a. John the Solitary, 5th c. Syriac mystic) on 💰& 🙌
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
John of Apamea (a.k.a. John the Solitary, 5th c. Syriac mystic) on 💰& 🙌
Well, at least the crises in the church today have precedent.
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Well, at least the crises in the church today have precedent.
I love that these are next to each other in our library (so that future minds can be rescued from amusingly reductive approaches to mind).
October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I love that these are next to each other in our library (so that future minds can be rescued from amusingly reductive approaches to mind).
"In other words, Indigenous people did not need to wait for Columbus to have something to resist." t.co/o7Il3DwKfa
https://comment.org/salvation-by-dread-alone/
t.co
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"In other words, Indigenous people did not need to wait for Columbus to have something to resist." t.co/o7Il3DwKfa
Very concerning development here:
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Very concerning development here:
The October Material Mysticism at @commentmagazine.bsky.social is a descent through the maw of despair into a hell of mercy. comment.org/salvation-by...
Salvation by Dread Alone
A journey to Chaco Canyon induces memories of dread conquered by Christ.
comment.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The October Material Mysticism at @commentmagazine.bsky.social is a descent through the maw of despair into a hell of mercy. comment.org/salvation-by...