Book Review of The Women are up to Something and Metaphysical Animals

The year 2022 saw the publication of two books about four remarkable women philosophers: Elizabeth Anscombe, Phillipa Foot, Mary Midgely, and Iris Murdoch. The two books, Benjamin Lipscomb’s The Women are up to Something, and Clare Mac Cummhail and Rachael Wiseman’s book Metaphysical Animals, both tell the story of these women’s friendship and how they … Continue reading Book Review of The Women are up to Something and Metaphysical Animals →

Your debt has been paid: A Sermon

I recently delivered this short reflection for a chapel service centred around the poetry of 17th century Anglican poet George Herbert. My reflection was on Herbert’s poem “Redemption” and is only tenuously connected to the poem. Herbert’s poem “Redemption” puts us in the place of a person saddled with an unpayable debt to a rich Lord. This, … Continue reading Your debt has been paid: A Sermon →

What we need is here

This piece is a version of a speech I am entering for this year's Henry C. Smith Peace Oratorical Contest. I will have to make some changes to this speech to make it fit into the parameters of the contest, and I thought this version was good enough to share with my readers as is. … Continue reading What we need is here →

Advent 2: Joining Creation’s Praise

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him … Continue reading Advent 2: Joining Creation’s Praise →

Gluttony, Fasting, and Feasting: Three Approaches to Technology

“The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say ‘look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.” (Matt. 11:19) In thinking about the human relationship to technology, we often go wrong in two directions. The first is the error under which … Continue reading Gluttony, Fasting, and Feasting: Three Approaches to Technology →

Living in God’s Time in a Technological Age

In his 2004 JJ Thiessen Lectures, John Swinton addresses the theme of disability and time. Dr. Swinton’s central thesis is that disability is all about time.[1] Essentially, Dr. Swinton uses the experience of ‘disability’ as an apophatic tool to expose the rebellious modern conception of time and it's connected anthropology. Swinton makes a similar move … Continue reading Living in God’s Time in a Technological Age →