• On Reading

    Keep history honest. Please.

    I read a hilarious satire on the rewriting of Roald Dahl’s language in new editions of his books. The article, titled “A Modest Proposal for Revisionist Gothic Literary Thoughtcrimes Against Wokespeak,” offers revisions…

  • Christianity

    Revival

    I’ve been following the testimonies and news stories about the revival at Asbury University over the last few weeks. It began with a routine chapel service a week ago Wednesday, and it’s been…

  • Christianity,  Current Events,  Novels

    Be not conformed

    Yesterday, I revisited my favorite discussion of Lewis’s space trilogy, David Downing’s Planets in Peril. A book-length critical study, it draws together numerous perspectives on the novels, includes a lengthy bibliography, and gives…

  • Christianity,  Poetry

    Prayer Poetry

    I’ve been tuned into the discussion about ChatGPT in recent weeks, wondering what the impact will be of unleashing such a powerful chatbot in the academic, creative, and professional realms. But in one…

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    Current Events

    ChatGPT: Friend or Foe?

    ChatGPT has made waves over the last few weeks because it’s the most high-performing AI-powered chatbot yet created. Able to produce natural, human-sounding prose, it’s raised alarms in the academic world because students…

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    Fiction

    Book Review: How It Went

    As I read Wendell Berry’s latest collection of short stories How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership, I thought often of a passage from his Memory of Old Jack.…

  • Current Events

    Incrementalism

    As regards the powers manifested in the aeroplane or the wireless, Man is as much the patient or subject as the possessor, since he is the target both for bombs and propoganda… What…

  • Current Events,  Nonfiction

    The Collective

    It is not a question of causing the human being to disappear, but of making him capitulate, of inducing him to accommodate himself to techniques and not to experience personal feelings and reactions.…

  • Current Events,  Essays

    Lewis the Social Prophet

    There is a crowd of busybodies. . . whose life is devoted to destroying solitude wherever solitude still exists. They call it “taking the young people out of themselves,” or “waking them up,”…