Archive - Good Things

The Bliss of Owning Nothing

Apologies for the reasonably slender offerings from me over the past few weeks. As you may have picked up, I’ve been a bit preoccupied with preparations…

Apr 13 •

Phenomenology of a Bookshop

I’ve realised something recently that might sound innocuous to some. But it’s quite groundbreaking for me:

Apr 6 •

March 2024

and H.G. Wells binge and Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)

Mar 29 •

Times when you need good things

the threshold of Holy Week and the Alfred Jewel

Mar 23 •

Margin for Calmness

Come now you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit” - yet you do not know…

Mar 16 •

"Room Service" is Not Enough

Also Allegory and Appetite, Early Modern Utopias, Gyrovagues, Is the Charismatic Demonic? and More

Mar 2 •

February 2024

Training for Improvement

On Having A Successful Day I’m constantly changing my approach to the day. But recently I’ve adopted something which is much simpler and, so far, much…

Feb 24 •

We Need to Talk About UFOs

We Need to Talk about UFOs The conscious Orthodox Christian lives in a world that is clearly fallen, both the earth below and the stars above, all being…

Feb 17 •

Lent: Too Much, Too Fast

Plus Spooky Moon, Ecclesial Economics, and More

Feb 10 •

The Pope, The Antichrist, and the End of the World

Plus...my birthday!

Feb 3 •

January 2024

Blanche Nuit...

...and other interruptions

Jan 27 •

The Gospel for Loneliness

An Epidemic of Loneliness I began reading Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze this week. From what I can tell…

Jan 20 •

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