Published Writings

Leaning into Evangelical Re-enchantment

_{2024 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

There’s a lot of talk about re-enchantment in some circles. But what is this term trying to describe? Simply put, it’s the feeling and experience that…

Review of Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

_{2024 – Faith Today Magazine}

Have you ever prayed a mid-swipe prayer? It occurs when you are mindlessly scrolling through social media posts and…

The Coming Psychedelic Moment

_{2023 – Mere Orthodoxy}

Former Navy SEAL and popular podcaster Shawn Ryan has been open with his audience of millions about the benefits of psychedelics…

Review: The Air We Breathe by Glen Scrivener

_{2023 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

Christians making their way in the world today are confronted by a dizzying multitude of messages, each with their own baked-in moral assumptions…

God Has Moved in Québec, and Will Do So Again

_{2023 – Thrive Magazine}

In his landmark essay, “What Happened to Christian Canada?” Mark Noll writes that in the 1950’s church attendance in Quebec was around 90 percent…

Antidote: Five Strategies to Break free of Porn’s Poisonous Grip

_{2023 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

I’m not sure what is more alarming about the pervasiveness of porn use in our society, the statistics or the anecdotes of ruined lives…

They Came in White Vans

_{2023 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

“You guys wanna play some soccer?” I asked. They were standing around in groups of two, five, eight…

Pornography Poisons Everything

_{2023 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

In his 2017 book Cheap Sex, Catholic sociologist Mark Regnerus conducted a massive study of intimate relationships across America…

Family and Fatherhood: A Conversation with Jeremy Pryor

_{2023 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

I recently heard Kevin DeYoung mention that he likes listening to thinkers whose worldview overlaps with his but who have different areas of focus from him…

Looking Back: 3 Lessons from My Deepest Valley

_{2022 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

This year marks the ten-year anniversary of the lowest point in my life thus far. In 2012, while still in our mid-20’s, my wife and I went through burnout…

Christ and Consciousness

_{2022 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

There is a certain kind of person who asks “Why can I think? Why can I feel?” A kind of person who…

What Can We Learn from Deconversion Memoirs?

_{2022 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

If you’ve grown up in the church, chances are you’ve seen a number of people walk away from the faith…

Some Thoughts on my First (and Last) T4G Conference

_{2022 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

I found myself in the fifth row. My pastor, it turns out, is kind of obsessed with sitting close up to the front…

Guest Post: A Christian View on Psychedelics (Paywalled)

_{2022 – Noble Truth, Rav Arora’s Substack}

A few weeks ago, I came across Phil’s brilliant piece “Joe Rogan and the Search for Transcendence” which alluded to my reflection on taking a psilocybin microdose with my Christian friend...

Joe Rogan and the Search for Transcendence

_{2022 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

Living in Montreal, I am used to encountering deeply secular people. No heaven above, no hell below, no God at all…

With Bent Stalk and Bruised Reed

_{2021 – Agape Review}

As night’s majestic silence swallows day
angelic moonlit faces peaceful lay
my conscience robbed thereof by daytime’s flight…

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The Wingfeather Saga: A Review

_{2021 – The Gospel Coalition Canada}

There is a feeling I get when I finish a truly special book. It is the sense that I’ve been granted a rare glimpse of something beautiful and good…