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Book Review: Dangerous Prayers By Craig Groeschel I listened to this audiobook over a couple of days. At four hours it is one of the shorter books I have come across, but I found myself stopping often — not because it was difficult to follow, but because it was difficult to sit with. Dangerous Prayers…

THE FALSE GODS OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST  ·  CHAPTER ONE The Problem With Dagon If you have sat in a church for any length of time and heard a sermon on the Philistines, you have almost certainly been told that Dagon was a fish god. Half man, half fish — a grotesque sea creature…

Expressive Individualism:The Water We All Swim in, and Why Gen-Z is Looking for Land I want to start with a confession that is a little embarrassing: I spent most of my teenage years convinced I was different. Not different in a small way — fundamentally, essentially different. The kind of person who saw what others…

MY TOP 5 Books (So Far): Recently, while talking with my girlfriend, I mentioned that one of the books she gave me—Redeeming Productivity—was one of my favorite books I had ever read. She asked a simple follow-up question: “What are your top 5 books?” I paused. “I don’t know actually” Which was surprising. I had…

The Fence: On hiding behind indecision, the modern myth of passion, and the call to move forward like a man. I have a confession to make, and I suspect some of you will recognize yourselves in it. For stretches of my life — longer than I would like to admit — I have lived in…

Question the Given I have been in a phase of questioning the given assumptions of our modern mind, especially the Western, modern human “givens.” That was the topic of my last two blogs—questioning two common narratives that are so widely accepted that almost anyone on the street would assume them to be true without much…

The Richest Age of Mankind: What is true Wealth? We are often told that we are the wealthiest humans who have ever lived. In one sense, that is true. We have modern comforts, abundant food, medicine, entertainment, climate control, and conveniences that would have seemed extraordinary in almost any earlier age. And yet many people…

Are We Actually More Educated?: Education Levels in the Americas We often say that we are the most educated and literate generation in American history. By most modern measurements, that is true. Literacy rates are high, high school completion is widespread, and college attendance is common. Compared to earlier centuries, access to education has expanded…

Christian Digital Sobriety: Answers to the Modern Dopamine Crisis When it comes to addiction, and sensitivity to addiction, I am more sensitive then most, and because of that, I have had to take a more extreme approach to what I allow into my life and what I do not. For me, Christian digital sobriety means…