Ethika Politika

David Mills

Let's Not Do Men's Stuff

David Mills

"Pep talks and rallies don’t make a man feel like a man. At most, I think, they make men feel like they’re feeling like men."

Virtue

Finding the Good in Every Homily

David Mills

The Church wastes a huge amount of her capital, her unique opportunities to speak to people who put themselves in the position of hearing what she has to say.

Jesus vs. the Zombies: An Advent Meditation

David Mills

"The more we try to ignore death, the more it fascinates us. The more we tell ourselves that mortality doesn’t apply to us, the more it surrounds us."

C. S. Lewis on Hate, and Why He Was Only Partly Right

David Mills

We're tempted to hate the other as a way of loving ourselves and our causes. That makes the hatefulness and the exaggeration feel virtuous.

The world

On the Unseen Racism

David Mills

In trying to discern the truth, we need to exercise a preferential option for the marginalized. We should weight their stories more heavily than our observations.