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My Selected Essays:
Meaning crisis and language series:
Eyes of Mud and Spit series:
Other Longreads:
Medium archive, by subject:
Cultural Analysis
Louise Perry and the Case Against the Sexual Revolution
The Strange Trend of Kindness Porn
The philosophy of the culture wars — why we need to talk about what we are actually talking about
Pop Stars and the Human Need to Worship
The Crisis of the Modern World: Language and meaning
The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Life
The Meaning Crisis and Language
The meaning crisis and language III — Myth, faith, ethics and aesthetics
The fragmented, lonely, sad dystopia of social media, and how birds can save you.
We don’t read poetry. Understand why and you understand everything wrong with us as a society.
The Meaninglessness of The News
Is Western Society Collapsing?
The end of the world is un-culture.
Religion and Faith
For Once, Richard Dawkins is Right
The Agony and Blessing of a Religious Upbringing
The Fastest Growing Religion in the World is Under the Radar
The Strange Return of Belief in God
The Anatomy of Spirit and Fire: How Reading Ancient Theologians Can Help Us Today
The 7th Century Monk Who Communed with Animals and Saw the Future
Why Christianity Is True (long read)
‘Spiritual but not religious’ — the catchphrase for the latter days of the West
Julian of Norwich — 21st century lessons from a 14th century mystic
Valley of Vision: Why an old puritan prayer book might change how you think about religion
The End of Atheism and the Age of Apathy
The Beautiful Absurdity of Christian Meaning — Anton Chekhov — The Student
The Garden of Eden — The Unconscious Self and a Moral World
Cain and Abel — Our Conflict with the Unfairness of Reality
Can We Approach Religion Entirely Through Experience?
On Poetry and Poets
Why Shelley’s ‘A Defence of Poetry’ Should Be Mandatory Reading for Students of All Disciplines
The Spirit and the Sign: How Great Poetry Works
Poems you should read before you die: The Waste Land — T. S. Eliot
Poems you should read before you die: Four Quartets — T.S. Eliot
Poems you should read before you die: William Wordsworth- Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Understanding how poetry works can help us understand the self
Philosophy, Psychology, Science
Near Death Experiences: The Lines Between Phenomenology and Science
Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness?
Longing: the Most Important Human Experience
Free Will: Dr. Robert Sapolsky and the Persistence of Dogmatic Determinism
The Basic Flaw in the Scientific Method
Why Dawkins ‘The God Delusion’ is the Worst Work of Popular Philosophy Ever Written
The Degradation of Public Science
Why Science is Pessimistic About the Human Condition
How Consciousness Undermines Evolution
How Dante Can Change Your Life
Why “the Christmas feeling” is more profound than you think.
Psychedelics and the modern world
Psychedelics and the modern world II — shamanism, prophecy and the unconscious mind
Neuroscience and individualism
Love is the only conception of free will worth having
The hard problem of consciousness from the perspective of language
Spirituality
Modern Spirituality is Profoundly Wrong About the Self
The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Life
