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Men of Virtue with Dr. Zach Wagner (Podcast)
Read more: Men of Virtue with Dr. Zach Wagner (Podcast)In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Zach Wagner, who recently completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford, to talk about his new book, Men of Virtue: How the Fruit of the Spirit Forms Male Character in the Modern World (published by Brazos). In our conversation we talk about how the Fruit of the…
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Bad Analogies and the need for Charity
Read more: Bad Analogies and the need for CharityThe news, once again, is not good. Migrant caravans or asylum-seekers are being tear-gassed at the border. An American Christian was killed when he attempted to evangelize to natives on the island of North Sentinel. A British Ph.D. student was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on espionage charges by the UAE. (Thankfully these…
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Why Ancient and Medieval Virtue might be Important for Modern Science
Read more: Why Ancient and Medieval Virtue might be Important for Modern ScienceIn Plato’s Gorgias, the character Callicles argues that morality is a device of the weak masses to limit the power of the truly strong who are their natural superiors. In this we get a ‘might makes right,’ ethic and is in a sense a proto-Nietzsche or Raskolnikov (from Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment). Callicles, who is…