Sitemap - 2024 - Taking Off and Landing: Explorations in the Moral Life

Murder and the Renewal of the World

On Being Stuck, and Going On

Parenting Amidst the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Honoring the Family: Gifts of Parents to Children, and Back Again

The Entry Point of the World: On the Place of Parents

Why Should You Support This Substack?

Oh No! I Bought A Cybertruck!

Interested in the new Bonhoeffer movie? Please don't go!

The Question of Promises

New Writing: Mine and Others

Tomorrow is My Birthday: Please Clap

Taking Off and Landing: Explorations in the Moral Life

On Not Speaking God's Name

Oh No! I Cheered for the Team With The Largest Payroll in Baseball!*

One Quick Nudge: A Spooky Wednesday Request

The Sabbath in a World of Idols

Sabbath as Focal Practice

New Essay in Christianity Today: Politics and Time

Oh No! I've Decided That Status Was Something To Be Pursued!

Becoming a Graven Image Culture

Some Additional Thoughts about Rules of Life and Christian Community

Be the Idolatry That You Want To See In the World

If You Want to Beat Bad Arguments, You Need to Get Ready to Wait

Idolatry and Bureaucracy

Algorithms as Idolatry

Oh No! I Fed My Mogwai and Now Find My Family Under Demonic Oppression!

Oh No! I Accidentally Posted Something About Dogs and Cats Getting Eaten!

The First Idolatry: Refusing to Keep Moving

The Way Through Fear is To Keep Going

What God Gives, and What The Desert Cannot Take

The Problem of Aspiration

The Decalogue's Origins: First to the Jew

Just Talking About Vasectomies on a Friday

The Decalogue Comes to the Suffering

The Last Discount Theatre on Earth: A Plea for Better Reading and Writing

The Decalogue: God's Singular Word

New Writing: Homeschooling, Scripture in Christian Ethics, and A Study Bible

Updates for Fall 2024

The Last Supper Always Wins

Five Theses on Politics and the Moral Life

The Undivided Moral Life

Christian Ethics Is Not Politics

Four Books, Three Recs, Two Theses, One Poll

Beyond Empires and Toward Hope

Empathy on Empty: A Fourth of July Meditation

Dorothy Day and Wendell Berry Go Into a Bar

New Article with Christianity Today: The Gifts of Scarcity

The Limits of Feeling Another's Feelings

Just Because You Feel It Doesn't Mean It's There

A Little Anarchy Never Hurt Anyone

A Universal Suffering Demands a Universal Answer

Bigger Than God: The Heart of Pride

The Sharing of a Life Is Not Sharing a Building: Two Kinds of Hospitality

Proud of Being Good: The Substack Vice

Risking Communion: Dorothy Day on Israel and Palestine

Working at the Speed of God

What If Sadness Just Is? What If The Way Out Isn't Within Us?

The Mystical Body of Christ: The Heart of the World's Unity

New Article Out Today: The Inequality of Sins

Let's Play A Game: A Classroom Experiment

Dorothy Day: How Not to Have a Protest

The Apple That Eats Itself: Further Notes on Anger

The Things You Don't Have to Write

Dorothy Day: A Starter Kit

Anger and the Unmaking of Meaning

Covetousness: The Most Unnatural Vice

There is No Post-Evangelicalism

Notes on Maundy Thursday: Samson's Eyes

Fornication Is A Funny Word, Right?

Gluttony Goes Before the Fall

Talking About Talking About Suffering

The Dusk and Its Gifts

The Differences Which Truly Make a Difference

Coming Attractions: Notes on Future Writing

If Not Bureaucracy, Then What?

Bureaucracy as Water: Between the Dragon and the Celestial City

Upcoming Book Club: February 19th on Ivan Illich

The Bureaucracy and the Glory

Bureaucracy and the Power of Life and Death

Forget Lady Wisdom: Enter Lady Bureaucracy

New Review: Church, Power, and Church Power

What You See Isn't What You Get: Bureaucracy as Spectacle

In the Beginning, The World Was Made: Bureaucracy and the Power of a Good Origin Story

The One In Whom All Things Hang Together: Bureaucracy and the Christian Life

Lord, Help Me Believe the Good News, But Not Yet

Just More Clever Than the Next Guy: The Despair of Contemporary Christian Ethics

Summoned to Responsibility: It's Just Your Life

Retractiones: For Your Weekend Enjoyment

Just Thinking About the Roman Empire, Mostly the Murders