TV – Covenant

Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI

By Matthew S.C. Olver I’ll admit, I was a bit late to the AI party, or at least to the awareness that AI might be throwing a party to which I’m not invited. A recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show was incred... Read More...

‘This Is the Way’: Communion Across Difference in The Mandalorian

Be advised, this essay contains spoilers for The Mandalorian. Amber Noel I’m a Star Wars loyalist. Its universe has always entranced me. Unlike the Star Trek universe, which is comforting in its rationali... Read More...

The Rings of Power

By Hannah Matis Caveat lector: The series is available to stream on Amazon Prime. I will do my best to avoid spoilers internal to the series, but miserere mei as I reckon with the nature of prequels. Ha... Read More...

Streaming Catholicism: On “Midnight Mass”

Spoiler Warning: This essay discusses key plot points, including the ending, of Midnight Mass. By Daniel Martins One of the ongoing frustrations for people of faith is the way that religious practice ... Read More...

Hard Lessons on Discipleship from Cobra Kai

By Terence Chandra “It’s a tough world out there and I can help them be ready for it.” — Johnny Lawrence The last memory most priests have of their confirmation students is from the day of the rite itself — ... Read More...

The Virtues of Professional Wrestling

By Neil Dhingra In terms of book-length philosophical studies of professional wrestling, Douglas Edwards’s thoroughly enjoyable Philosophy Smackdown (2020) claims to be “the first of its kind,” which makes m... Read More...

Counterfactual

By John Bauerschmidt Philip K. Dick’s 1962 novel, The Man in the High Castle, posits an alternative history, set mostly in a Japanese occupied San Francisco after the Second World War, in which Japan and its... Read More...

Being a Potato Bug

Watching Mister Rogers with my children is a constant reminder of how impoverished our culture can be when it comes to childhood.

The hope and joy of peace

Bridges of Grace: Serving Well in the Midst of Conflict

Discerning New Anglican Identities in the Anglican Church of Kenya

Bishops and Coherence

A guide to the Covenant

Bridges of Grace: Serving Well in the Midst of Conflict

Discerning New Anglican Identities in the Anglican Church of Kenya

Bishops and Coherence

George Orwell: Closet Anglican?

There Is Virtue in Waiting

The Next Two Theologies

Are we done with the '79 prayer book?

Mindfulness As Heartfulness in Alcuin of York’s Love of Reading

God Bless America, God Save the King

Charles III and Kenotic Monarchy

Of Canons and Hymns

Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI

Crowns and Vows

Ascension song

George Orwell: Closet Anglican?

Dreaming Dreams, Seeing Visions: The Theology of Field of Dreams

Charles III and Kenotic Monarchy

Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI

Niggle’s Parish: Concerning Trees in Purgatory

Telling the Christian Story in Public

Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI

‘This Is the Way’: Communion Across Difference in The Mandalorian

The Rings of Power

Streaming Catholicism: On “Midnight Mass”

Hard Lessons on Discipleship from Cobra Kai

The Virtues of Professional Wrestling

Counterfactual

Being a Potato Bug