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Had a rowdy conversation with Matthew Lee Anderson and Alastair Roberts around the questions of complicity in the Begg and marriage controversy.

I finished O'Donovan's *The Disappearance of Ethics* over the weekend and would like to report that it thoroughly vindicates my reading here.

It's the most *explicitly* Barthian book from O'Donovan we have, I think.

amazon.com/Disappearance-…

Jesus asks hundreds of questions in the Bible.

He directs exactly *one* to the Father: 'My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?'

In *CIQ,* I suggest that 'questioning is a form of intellectual poverty, as it is an encounter with what we do not know.' It is the intellectual form our 'poverty of spirit' takes.

A biblical connection I failed to make:

'My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?' -- Mt.…

Where else are you going to read a book review that includes references to NBC's 'The Good Place,' T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' and Bill Murray in 'Groundhog Day'? Jake Meador reviews Matthew Lee Anderson 'Called into Questions'

mereorthodoxy.com/the-end-of-our…

I have a new (short) essay out in The American Journal of Bioethics on restricting abortion after Dobbs, which cites Robert P. George's notion of 'prudence' to propose that restrictions need not conflict with pregnant women's right to decline burdensome medical treatments.
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I've been spending the afternoon discussing William May's *The Physician's Covenant* with Kal Fell and a bunch of Paul Ramsey fellows.

They don't write theological ethics like they used to. What a gem of a book it is.

Before Leo Strauss developed esotericism, Quintilian was openly touting it as a way of speaking under political duress.

In related news, I have fallen into a hole the size of the Roman Empire and I may never find my way out.

'Trumpian populism is about many things, but one of them is this: working-class people rebelling against administrators.'

This is a very good David Brooks column.

nytimes.com/2024/01/18/opi…

One of the fun things about being around Mere Orthodoxy for so long has been seeing so many writers like Matthew Loftus do such good work there and elsewhere.

This is a really wonderful book that deserves its plaudits. Thanks for publishing it, Lexham Press.

You can get 40% off at lexhampress.com/merefidelity.

LIKE I WAS SAYING....