Category: Culture

What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.

  • Canceling student debt is a good start

    Canceling student debt is a good start

    We allow people to offer a dishonest critique of the argument for cancelling student debt based on false powerlessness.

  • Politics or Partisan?

    Politics or Partisan?

    Many people get these words confused. And misunderstanding what politics actually is is deadly for democracy.

  • Our Brains Are Broken

    Our Brains Are Broken

    Modern society has broken our brains through distraction and anxiety. So the solution requires us to change society.

  • Hope and Generosity

    Hope and Generosity

    The strangeness of the Palm and the Passion is that they enter into a mystery we long for and refuse equally.

  • Eventually is not a valid argument for now.

    Eventually is not a valid argument for now.

    Just because my daughter will eventually get her driver’s license, that doesn’t mean she gets the keys to the car.

  • There is no normal to return to

    There is no normal to return to

    “Going back to normal” is a deeply pessimistic idea. And it represents a fatalism we cannot afford to encourage.

  • Good and Bad Things

    Good and Bad Things

    Sometimes we struggle with the gospel because the story we tell ourselves is so strong. And we forget it is there.

  • When Jesus’s words sting

    After the Transfiguration, Jesus has what appears to be an outburst of frustration. But is it? Maybe they are more revealing than that.