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  • Aug 8, 2026

    Welcome to Field Notes 2.0

    It was time for a refresh.
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  • Aug 7, 2026

    Optimism, Pessimism, and a Dose of Reality from Ecclesiastes

    Are you an optimist? A pessimist?
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  • Jul 23, 2026

    What Makes for a Great Vacation?

    During each vacation for the past couple of years, I have made a habit of reading Josef Pieper’s Leisure the Basis of Culture. He writes, “not to give advice and draw up a line of action” but to “make men think.”
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  • Jan 3, 2026

    What I Read in 2025

    I recently listened to a lecture on the virtue of making lists. There is neurotic list-making as a form of control, but there can also be virtue in our list-making as an expression of attention and even love. For the past 5-6 years, I have made a habit of writing down what I have read...
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  • Nov 19, 2025

    Rules vs. Virtue

    I want to begin with a confession. I did not grow up with a Classical Education. I did not have house groups, identifying me with Augustine, Carey, Edwards, or Tolkien. I had mascots, which meant I was a Roadrunner, a Rattler, and a Bruin. Nor did I grow up with an emphasis upon virtues. These...
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  • Oct 17, 2025

    Worth Considering

    Issue number eight of Mere Orthodoxy arrived in the mail this week and I was greeted with some wisdom from T.S. Elliot.
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  • Sep 7, 2022

    What is Your First Thought of God as Your Father?

    I recently picked up a book I have read before but is worth reading again and again. Owen should be read slowly, thoughtfully, and repeatedly for there is so much good fruit to glean from his writings.
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  • Jan 20, 2021

    Pulling Up My Anxiety By the Roots

    Do not be anxious about anything.
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