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Keith D. Stanglin A version of this series of blog posts was given at the 2026 Harding Lectureship. View Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this series. Before I consider technologies that threaten our human nature, let me briefly state my assumptions about human nature, that it can be diminished, and how. Anthropology is perhaps the central theological question of our day, and it is my primary concern in this series of posts. A properly theological anthropology is founded on th

Keith D. Stanglin A good chart, which can be an effective pedagogical aid, is typically and almost inevitably an oversimplification, particularly when the topic is history, and especially intellectual history. The less accurate ones are not so much an aid as a great foil in a class setting. Either way, they can provide occasion for real instruction. A chart taken from John Hannah, Charts of Ancient and Medieval Church History I have long been amused by this image, taken fro

M. Todd Hall A father teaching his daughter to ride a bike: an embodied education [The incarnate Word] could never be learned if, at the same time, its meaning were not also grasped, and its meaning could not be grasped if it were not, also, incarnate in us. This is the basic invitation that Christ made, and continues to make to us, that we come to know the truth of this message through practicing it, down to the most minute detail.… To know the Gospels through seeking to pr