Stephen Freeman

Another Week Ends: The Capacity for Every Crime, the Unimportance of Being Cool, Violence Ad Infinitum, Defiled Lunch Meat, the Dallas Street Choir, and the Es …

1. Lots of good reading material for this Memorial Day weekend! Our first article—a ripe […]

Christopher Green   / 5.25.18
Another Week Ends: Jean Vanier, Amen Dunes, Father Freeman, Invisibilia, 1 Corinthians (Ortberg Translation), and A Flock of (Hotel) Seagulls

1. Stephen Freeman, at it again, this time translating the story of the rich man […]

Ethan Richardson   / 4.6.18
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: Minimizers, Teachers & Solvers, Super Bowl Winners & Self-Help Fixers, Unhappy Undergrads and Cradle Episcopalians

1. Kate Bowler’s new op-ed in the New York Times this week is one for […]

Ethan Richardson   / 2.2.18
Another Week Ends: Denhollander’s Statement, Frozen Miracles, Norwich Parents, Le Guin’s (Anti-)Maturismo, and Billboard Controversies

1. First off, we cannot dodge–and wouldn’t want to–the story that’s dominated the media these […]

David Zahl   / 1.26.18
Consuming 2017: Favorite Music, Media, Humor, and Books

Alrighty, my friends, it’s time for our annual round up of favorites, which I had […]

David Zahl   / 12.22.17
Another Week Ends: Bootleg Bob Dylan, Converted Morticians, Your True Self, Anxious Teens, and Earning Points in The Good Place

1. This week brought some fantastic revelations, not the least of which was Bob Dylan’s […]

Christopher Green   / 10.13.17
Another Week Ends: The End of the World, the Illusion of Sigmund Freud, the Anthropology of Jerry Lewis, Clean Eating, Tech Panic, and the Hangovers of Young Behavior …

1. This morning, I found myself engrossed in The Guardian’s latest “long read,” an essay by Dina […]

Christopher Green   / 8.25.17
Another Week Ends: Vanishing Adults, Mysterious Loss, “Spiritual” Mental Health, A Tragi-Comic Religion, Humanities vs. Engineering, and the Power of Grou …

1. I recently had a conversation with an elderly woman who became supremely concerned over […]

Christopher Green   / 6.30.17
Another Week Ends: The Voice in Your Head, Campus Religion, Non-Western Christianity, S-Town, and Nihilist SoulCycle Instructors

1. One of the many brilliant moments in the Harry Potter franchise arrived in Book […]

Christopher Green   / 4.7.17

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