Will McDavid

Another Week Ends: More Declining Humanities, You Shall Know Them by Their Google-Searches, Some Simone Weil, Garrison Keillor Goes to Church, the New Male (?) Self-I …

1. First up, education. Ross Douthat at the NYT this week wrote a thoughtful appeal […]

Will McDavid / 8.10.18

Another Week Ends: Theistic ‘Nones’, Fleming on Faith, Ideological Is-es and Oughts, Urban Kenosis, and the New Meritocratic Aristocracy

1. First up, Pew released the results of a recent survey on a religious beliefs, glossed […]

Will McDavid / 6.1.18

Another Week Ends: Social Poverty, A Lutheran Take on Chik-Fil-A, Jacobs on Propaganda, Some Occult Stuff, Faking Russian Lit, New Prince, and the Work/Life Conundrum

1. Looks like David Brooks this week is onto something again–his article on “The Blindness of […]

Will McDavid / 4.20.18

Another Week Ends: Self-Defeating Measurements, Neurotic Moralities, Self-Justifying Meritocracies, and Gospel-Centric Snoop Doggs

1. Over at the New York Times, Molly Worthen (of Apostles of Reason fame) wrote […]

Will McDavid / 3.23.18

Another Week Ends: Remembering Billy Graham, Masculinity, The Midlife of Brendan Fraser, Arendt on Auden, Antisocial Churchsoundboardmen, Norwegian Grace, and (More) …

1. First up, Tullian Tchividjian posted a reflection on his remarkable grandfather, the late Billy […]

Will McDavid / 2.23.18

Another Week Ends: Thomistic Burnout, Reforming Halloween, I’ll Be Small for Christmas, Christian Book Parodies, and More Fleming Rutledge

1. First up, the Angelic Doctor. Aquinas’s body of work has always been daunting to […]

Will McDavid / 12.22.17

Just My (Christian) Imagination Running Away With Me

This article was originally posted by the John Jay Institute, as part of an online […]

Will McDavid / 11.3.17

Another (Conference) Week Ends: Paranormativity, Dream Deprivation, Millennial Morticians, Martin Luther, Christian Book Titles for the Age of the ‘Net, and Mor …

1. I think it was PZ who said that belief in the paranormal is almost a […]

Will McDavid / 10.27.17

Another Week Ends: Apple’s Future; the Problem with Present-ism; Rick, Morty, Jim Carrey, and JAZ; Denis Johnson’s Darkness; Bergman’s Light; and HG …

1. At Apple’s Keynote on Tuesday, Tim Cook – in classic Jobs style – gave […]

Will McDavid / 9.15.17

Another Week Ends: Self-Citation, GoT Fatigue, Pros and Cons of Moral Lit, Wonder in Children’s Books (and Movies), Millennial GENESI$, and Funeral Etiquette

1. In the academic world this week, a new study looks at self-citations among academics. […]

Will McDavid / 8.11.17

Another Week Ends: Wellness Epidemics, Praying with Kesha, Novelizing The Kingdom, and Confirmation Naivety

1. First up, Amy Larocca over at The Cut delves into “The Wellness Epidemic,” ht CB: Paltrow […]

Will McDavid / 7.7.17

Another Week Ends: Cultural Morality, Internet Extremism, Pastoring Suburbanites, Theologies as Medicine, More Lutheranism at 500, and Pixar on Parenting

Jam-packed AWE this week. We’ll start with some articles examining our cultural (‘little-l’) laws, then […]

Will McDavid / 5.26.17