Dylan Pahman

Dylan Pahman

Dylan Pahman is contributing editor at Ethika Politika, assistant editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality, research associate for the Acton Institute, and fellow of the Sophia Institute. He also writes on Christian spirituality at Everyday Asceticism.

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Dignity: A Dinosaur

March 31, 2015

More often than not, we get to the point of loving a person for what they are like by first finding common ground in what we like.


The Monk as Merchant: Economic Wisdom from a Desert Hermit

January 12, 2015

The presumption that the profit-motive is a species of greed is false. This economic wisdom from the ancient Egyptian desert proves timelessly prudent, still relevant for our own context today.


Book Review: Dangerous Passions, Deadly Sins

November 13, 2014

Dylan Pahman reviews Dennis Ockholm’s new release from Brazos Press, Dangerous Passions, Deadly Sins: Learning from the Psychology of Ancient Monks.


Scapegoats of Christian Social Thought

September 4, 2014

Constructive Christian social thought will refuse to entertain argumentative scapegoats.

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Book Review: Becoming Human

July 29, 2014

Dylan Pahman reviews John Behr’s recent release, Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image, by St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press.


The Common Good of All

June 11, 2014

Ironically, what we need most of all to promote the universal common good is not a world political authority, but a world spiritual authority.

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Book Review: The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd

March 28, 2014

Addison Hodges Hart, in The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd, offers a wonderful exercise in comparative religion, examining the common ground that can be found in spiritual practice between Christianity and Buddhism.

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Book Review: The Forgotten Faith

March 21, 2014

The Forgotten Faith offers a helpful introduction to American Orthodox Christianity for interested Protestants.