Love is a force that defies the neat boxes we build, and yet, we chain it with morality, with ownership. I’ve had a storm of thought brewing within — can one heart hold multiple romantic loves, sexual...
06.27.2025 Indianexpress.comDemocracy is not a gift, nor a given; it is the hard-earned result of generations of struggle, sacrifice, and resistance. That is why I believe democratic ideals and institutions must be fiercely prot...
06.25.2025 Time.com and 1 sitesOur (superb) guide on the recent Interpreter Foundation Church history tour, Peter Fagg — whom my wife and I have known for years now, and who will also, if all goes according to plan, accompany us on...
06.28.2025 Patheos.comI n 1795, Immanuel Kant wrote a book titled Perpetual Peace just prior to the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars. More than a century later, Norman Angell wrote The Great Illusion , which argued that gre...
06.26.2025 Spectator.orgThere are times when writing deadlines loom, and the only hedge against nagging other todos is to put on a quiet movie seen several times before. The difficult task at hand is comforted by something repeating itself in the background. Repetition being impossible, the hermeneutic spiral kicks in and a scene inevitably jumps out (I’m thinking of Kierkegaard and Ricoeur at this point). Here’s one such example from Wes Anderson’s typically idiosyncratic The French Dispatch ( 2021 ). The movie gravit...
06.30.2025 Timothywstanley.comWe previously defined Pelagianism, and now we will explore its similarities with the modern West and establish a Christian alternative. Human Autonomy & the West There are few ideas that the modern We...
06.25.2025 Tifwe.orgSmells define our world – but modern life is killing them The smell of the Clockwork Orange – AKA the Glasgow Subway – has mystified Glaswegians for over a hundred years. Newspapers have pored over th...
06.26.2025 Cityam.com