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I’ve had a few queries—mostly friendly, mostly polite and restrained, but nonetheless frustrated—about my article in the latest issue of Christianity Today about the doctrine of creation.

Colin From Accounts is clever, funny, and well-written.

In my last post I went after a certain style of punditry and scholarship that scoffs at perceived errors as obviously mistaken—not reasonable differences of judgment but self-evidently foolish departures from objective fact—delivered in a rhetorical perfo…

In retrospect, this post is intemperate and vague and needed a prudent editor’s eyes; see my follow-up post where I say why and much more. * There is a style of punditry, as well as scholarship, that always knows, or in retrospect claims always to have kn…

I’m pleased to announce that on February 23 of next year—more or less exactly six months from today—Baker Books will publish The Screen-Free Church: How Pastors Can Diagnose and Resist the Spiritual Costs of Technology.

Here are the opening paragraphs of my essay in the latest issue of The New Atlantis, “You Don’t Have to Use AI.”

If, as Ross Douthat once remarked, Sohrab Ahmari’s broadside against David French was a full-employment bill for conservative pundits, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic is the same for writers of every kind—not just pundits or film critics but

The primary takeaway from this season for fans of the San Antonio Spurs is, or should be, a mix of gratitude, surprise, pleasure, and joy.

I’ve got two pieces from the past week to share.

No, not that AI.

“Screen-free church” is a phrase in the title of two things I’ve written: a CT piece from 2024 and my next book (due next February!).

This week I’m in CT arguing that the prosperity gospel is afoot in upper-middle-class, college-educated Christian circles.

A reminder for myself as much as for anyone else: The relevant questions to ask about AI and any and all usage of the variety of tools that go under its name are moral, theological, and formational.

In the last two weeks I’ve had two articles go up at Christianity Today.

In a 1981 book review for Harper’s, Hugh Kenner opens with a block-quoted excerpt from a 1978 essay called “Finding” by Guy Davenport.

My friend and colleague Richard Beck has written up a wonderful series of eight posts on the discourse and phenomenon of “intentionality” in Christian settings.

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My brother Mitch East recently floated a theory: that each of the Narnia books is concerned with one of the seven deadly sins.

This morning I have a column in Christianity Today called “So What If the Bible Doesn’t Mention Embryo Screening?”

Here are the opening five paragraphs of Robert P.

A little over a year ago, at the outset of December 2024, I started a newsletter.