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...

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...

Last week I posted essays on Treebeard and Faramir, two noble characters from the Lord of the Rings whom, I argued, Peter Jackson...

The Ainulindalë is the name of the first part of Silmarillion. It is the creation story of Tolkien's Middle Earth, and demonstrates that...

In an earlier post I compared the character Treebeard as we meet him in The Lord of the Rings, with movie-Treebeard as we meet him in...

For those whose first love is Tolkien's original novel, some of the changes made in Peter Jackson's films are bound to be disappointing....

What is it like to do philosophy? Here is an image. Imagine a rock on a calm sandy beach. The waves slowly wash up, caressing the rock,...

By the practice of gratitude I mean a lot more than observing all rules of etiquette about when and how to express gratitude to another...

The Scythians fight by flying. This is what Socrates tells us, anyway, in Plato’s Laches. He asks Laches himself what courage is, and...

Duns Scotus tells us that the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love perfect us as "wayfarers" on our way to heaven. Faith...