Review of Many Times and Many Places: C.S. Lewis on the Value of History
The book is a scholarly yet accessible apologetic for the study of history as an antidote to many modern ills.
Category: Modernity
To Live Dangerously or Die Trying
An unwanted party guest attempts to defile an imaginative dinner party of classical thinkers who are presumably friends as they discover the happiness within.
Freeing Michelangelo’s Prisoners
Michelangelo’s Prisoners changed me.
After the Light
This poem is a reflection on knowledge (light, vision), rebellion, and forgetting.
Modern Art – Is It That Awful?
I caution against categorizing all modern art as ugly before we give it a chance to speak for itself.
The Groundwork of Secularism: The Gifts of Modernity
The 19th century was a breakthrough period for secularism.
Bent Binding
This poem is initially a personal lament over the fragmentation that many of us face as a result of the current modes of living.
Pious Transaction or Blessed Exploit? Theologies of Nature from Paganism to Modernity
Almost since the modern environmentalist movement re-began in the 1960s, the legacy of Christian tradition and the activism of various contemporary Christian groups have together been blamed for causing, exacerbating, denying, obfuscating, and actively colluding with the global ecological crisis.
Quiddity: A Dizain
Quis est? Et’mological diversion: Who or what depends on connotation.
Funeral for a World
What are we to do
when a world dies?
Where do we gather
when the dead body is ours?
Reckoning With Death and Dying in a Disenchanted Age: The Christian Reality of the Fear of Death
Whether it occurs consciously or not, death holds sway as the central drama of human existence.
From Medieval to Modern and Beyond
When did modernity begin and exactly where did it come from?
Hamlet and the Headless World
As the Scientific Revolution, the Protestant Reformation, and the humanistic Renaissance triggered the cultural shifts that birthed the modern era, Shakespeare placed his inky-cloaked, brooding Prince on the precipice of the brave new modern world.
Why Christians Should Embrace Progress (Rightly Defined)
Concepts like ‘cultural’, ‘modernity’, and ‘progress’ were often bashed, and in their place, we sought to recreate some wholesome, by-gone era through the supposed dress code, social norms, and lifestyle of prior generations.
Pink Faux Fur
She was tired. Her guru had been filling her with humanistic pressures: “You are enough. You can do all things. You have the gift within. You are all you need.”