While I was always familiar with this verse, I only recently considered why God chose to begin with light. Not sound, not water, not food, not love. Light.

Does time exist? One question from my recent reading endeavor The Sound and the Fury stayed with me as I went through my day.

One time in prayer, Jesus and I bonded over how much we love understanding spiritual truths through what we witness in nature.

Our collective moral agency has been lost due to the majority of society denying the possibility for creating formal opportunities to discuss moral questions in social contexts.

I do believe in destiny or fate. Not in the sense that what I had for lunch today was determined by God before I was born, but in the sense that our birth has largely determined our education, socioeconomic status, and even longevity.

Economists model us as utility maximizing and rational, assuming a certain structure of preferences, but are we really rational when we happen to act like the models assume?

He had been continuously hurt through his various attempts, yet the one thing that remained unscathed was his determination.

It is all too easy to write off the elderly as “senile” or “childish” when in reality, there is truly a lifetime of experiences in each one of them, asking to be heard.

In his most famous book, I and Thou, the late 19th century Austrian philosopher Martin Buber considers what it means to treat someone as fully human and what true encounters with the other look like.

Not only are we failing to build in a way that is sustainable, but we are also not building in a way that will stay with us. We create just to last the decade, rather than to last a lifetime.

I would have never imagined myself saying I miss Florida’s suburban, monotonous neighborhoods, yet they were the most comforting view from the plane.

In reading Augustine’s Confessions for Lectio Humana, perhaps the most prominent aspect I’ve encountered so far is the author’s desire for worship.

Peter Thiel once said in an interview something to the effect that the only three coherent visions of the future that animate people in the modern world are Islamism, Chinese totalitarianism, and western-style environmentalism.

Liberté, Egalité, et Fraternité – literally translated as liberty, equality, and fraternity – was the motto and rallying cry for the French people during the French Revolution.

On November 30th, I joined millions of fellow listeners in reviewing the results of my Spotify Wrapped.

In Wendell Berry’s poem “How to Be a Poet,” he writes, “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”

I recently finished Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. This provocative novella occurs in Salinger's universe of the brilliant and precocious Glass children.

During this past election week, I had the timely task of critically evaluating Jean-Jacque Rousseau’s argument against democracy from Of the Social Contract.

In Psalm 98:4 we are called to “make a joyful noise unto the Lord,” to praise our heavenly father for the blessings he has given us.