The Identity Revolution: A Review of Carl Trueman’s The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to the Sexual Revolution, by Carl R. Trueman (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020), 425 pages

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Quenching the spirit

These monthly essays are a part of my work of building my own autonomy and writing about my own life however I want. Being vulnerable about parts of this doesn’t feel good, but we’ve already started building such a beautiful community here that I feel pretty ok about sharing this.

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Race & Rhyme

Brian Blount’s Then the Whisper Put on Flesh was a watershed read for me. The book overtly reads the ethic of the Gospels for what it can do for African Americans. It exploits the text while it affirms it and at times claims it falls short of the fullness of liberation.

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Responding to Jordan Peterson’s Message to the Christian Churches

I’m not a Jordan Peterson fan, but I am intrigued by the Jordan Peterson phenomenon, precisely, how Peterson is garnering a following by rejecting certain politically progressive dogmas and embodying a type of post-postmodern patriarchy.

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Q&A Amelia’s Burnout Reading List

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17 ways to not be an asshole while travel is wonky and the world is understaffed (and undersupplied).

Yesterday I wrote a piece for my paid subscribers about my experience bonding with my fellow passengers during the hours we were stuck on the tarmac in Newark: Nothing is working right now. Not retail. Not restaurants. Not hotels. Not air travel. Not schools. Not healthcare.

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Philosopher Martin Buber on Love and What It Means to Live in the Present

poet J.D. McClatchy wrote seven decades after the brilliant and underappreciated philosopher Simone Weil observed that “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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Bad Blood

With the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, violent rhetoric and threats of an impending Civil War skyrocketed on social media.

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Friday reflections: “Letter to an American”

Americans should have extraordinary gratitude for the achievements and sacrifices of the generations that gave us the chance to live in peace, prosperity and freedom. It should be accompanied by a deep humility and commitment to better the inheritance of freedom for all people and for all time.

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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older

We live in a culture that dreads the entropic inevitability of growing older, treats it like a disease to be cured with potions and regimens, anesthetizes it with botox and silence, somehow forgetting that to grow old at all is a tremendous privilege — one withheld from the vast majority of humans

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