IntroductionIn Dante’s Purgatorio, pride is the first sin punished. Penitents carry heavy boulders on their back, forcing proud heads to stoop so the gaze of their smug eyes never leaves the earth. El...  Read More

IntroductionThe ubiquitous expectation in modern life is to “be true to oneself,” which means the foremost concern and superseding moral imperative is the cultivation of the self.[1] This self-creatio...  Read More

The power of hypocrisy is that it proves something to be false. But maybe not the thing you think. Veganism isn’t proven false by a vegan who has three exception days a week. Her belief in veganism is...  Read More

Faith implies that there is something we can’t see. The totality of reality does not consist in what man can see, hear, or touch. There is something outside the human field of vision. What is not seen...  Read More

IntroductionThe central event of the New Testament is not the overthrow of the Old Testament, but the overthrow of death by way of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, which forever linked the two testaments,...  Read More

Wendell Berry concludes his poem, Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front, with the exhortation to “practice resurrection.” In this same poem, he says, “Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is ...  Read More

Some faithful Christians refuse to read fiction. The reason cited is the same: If there is time to read, they’d rather read something true. Better to plow up a real field than a pretend one. Such prej...  Read More

IntroductionCreative people are needed because God demands a richer vocabulary than words can give. New eloquence is needed to move the borders of intelligibility. Yet, God didn’t make everyone to be ...  Read More

IntroductionJust because we ought not take ourselves too seriously doesn’t mean we ought not give serious reflection to the unconversable subject of death. Upon the occasion of his mother’s grave illn...  Read More

One doesn’t form memories. One is inhabited by them. The reason the world is in such a moral mess is that it is in the grip of a demonic inhabitation, willfully possessed by the dark daydreams of soli...  Read More

The recent movement of Hitler-love is full of moral stunts and scoops, intellectual bargaining, and self-promotion. It is a world as spiritually dead as the world of the PWC, also rejecting metaphysic...  Read More

Algorithms have ancient roots. The word itself comes from the 9th-century Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi, whose Latin-transliterated name became “algorithm.” But algorithmic thinking predates him....  Read More