Dostoevsky Speaks to Modernity

Date: Thursday, March 14, 2024 Dostoevsky is often described as “prescient,” even “prophetic.” How did his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov, published in 1881, help us to understand our complex social and spiritual condition in 2024? This lecture identified aspects of our contemporary condition — polarization, challenges to our capacity for attention, the desire for …

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Hand drawn sketch of Saint Petersburg.

Friedrich Nietzsche and the Decline of Christian Culture

Date: October 20, 2023 It was a great couple of days at Pacifica Christian High School. The faculty and administration of Pacifica’s Center for Philosophy and Theology met to craft vision, toured classes to see students in action, witnessed curricular and pedagogical connections, and prepared for a day-long honors seminar and evening event for the …

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Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche, 1906, Edvard Munch

The Decline of Christianity: A Threat to America’s Democratic Fabric?

The decline of American Christianity is no secret. Recent works like Ryan Burge’s The Rise of the Nones and Stephen Bullivant’s Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America have documented, analyzed, and explained quite deftly. The stats are shocking and the implications are quite disturbing—half of all Americans aged 18-29 are not only not religious but …

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