Month: April 2023
Redeeming Neverland: The Question of Shame & the Crisis of Agency Facing Modern Men
J. M. Barrie first wrote Peter Pan as a play in 1904, expanding it into a full novel in 1911. Nothing he wrote before or since would ever come close to sparking such popular reception. It tapped into and articulated...
Once More, Church and Culture
Christendom is the name we give to Christian civilization, when society, culture, law, art, family, politics, and worship are saturated by the church’s influence and informed by its authority. Christendom traces its beginnings to the fourth century after Christ; it...
Spinning Toward Autocracy
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022, 340 pp., $29.95 pb. Hitler hath slain his millions, and Mao his ten millions. But what do we make...
Permanent Crisis in the Humanities
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021, 320 pp., $27 pb. At my master’s graduation last spring, the dean of our school gave the commencement address. He began with...
Three Challenges for Talking About Health
Sandro Galea. Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 274pp, $28.95. One of my favorite ways to orient new medical students on the clinical team is to riff on...
Good Friday
As is our annual custom, we are not publishing any new essays, reviews, or other content during the tail end of Holy Week. Instead, hear these musical reflections and consider the extent to which God went to rescue his people.
Two Truths for Dark Days
Like many parents, I’ve sent my kindergartener to school recently with a pit in my stomach. Horror of the recent school shooting has ripped across the nation in the last week. My mind is preoccupied with terror. My kindergartener attends...
Colonized by the City
We planted a church in Boulder under no illusions regarding its warranted reputation as one of the most left wing cities in our nation. It is no secret that Boulder is a bastion of progressivism and regularly listed as one...
Letter from a Victorian Exvangelical
From the Christian Observer, 1858, pp.251-256 Edited by Moses Bratrud Difficulties of Young Men It would be unfair, I think, not to give the “Christian Observer” credit for more candour than is to be found in many other publications of...