I recently published an essay at Public Discourse. I argue that federal student lending creates two crises in higher education: a current...

At The Lamp Magazine blog, there's a lyrical essay I wrote on a strange experience I had while reading Haggard's novel, She. I appreciate...

I have an essay over at the Christian Scholars Review blog, called "Reading and the Virtue of Memory." An excerpt: "Whatever our degree...

My first year of graduate school did not go well. At first I was simply thrilled to be able to study theology at Oxford University, but...

I’ve recently found myself, in the transition from Lent to Easter, focusing on the miracle at the wedding in Cana. The story—including...

Baylor has a radio show on our local public radio station, hosted by Derek Smith. He had me on the show last week to talk about my...

The lore is that King Solomon was the wisest who ever lived. In Paradiso, Dante questions the lore. What about Adam before the Fall, or...

Duns Scotus’ rational route to God begins, oddly enough, with the Bible. God revealed himself to Moses as “I am who I am,” and for most...

[Re-posting this since I had removed it a few months back in hopes of publishing it in a more widely- read venue. It's good! But not...

I had a prophetic idea the other day which I haven't seen anywhere before. I write it here as a warning, but some people will think it's...

“Tu es verum esse; tu es totum esse” --Duns Scotus There is an old tradition which associates God with being or existence. Duns Scotus...

I recently read Zena Hitz's book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton, 2020). I highly recommend it....

Over the last few months I've had the privilege to talk about things I love on two podcasts. Earlier this month I was on Mere Fidelity,...

In the Introduction to The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis tells us the reasons he used to give when people would ask him why he was an...

"Why is there something rather than nothing?" Here is one of the biggest of the Big Questions. But for the all deep philosophizing done...

Sometimes I think that a saint is someone who is capable of loving a hat more than I currently love anything. You get to a strange...

When I hear the words "creation" and even "creationism," I don't usually think of the old debates about "creation vs evolution." Instead...

Sometimes the good life demands sacrifice. It is written, Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends....

What it means for a virtue to regulate an appetite has nothing to do with diminishing appetite as such. It has to do with ordering an...

Yes. My friend, Scott Williams, has put together an excellent book bringing the academic field of disability studies into dialogue with...

What is left for the cold grey soul That moans like a wounded dove? One wine is left in the broken bowl 'Tis, to love, and love, and...

Here is an audio file of some commentary I gave on Charles Williams' novel, The Place of the Lion. I originally recorded this for my...

Philosophy is an activity and all activities aim at the good. What good does Philosophy aim at? Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding. These...

The title of this essay is not quite as apt as the titles of my earlier essays on the two Aragorns, Faramirs, and Treebeards. This is...