Tag: addiction
Covenant Eyes
Last year, Plough was very kind to publish this piece about how people can support their loved ones in breaking free from porn addiction. In the inscrutable councils of the algorithm, it showed up in the first page of Google...
how can the church respond to the opioid epidemic?
Thank you for your patience while I was away! I really appreciated Sarah Clark’s work in this piece on the opioid epidemic: The paradox of addiction is that people cannot choose to leave drugs behind until they fully admit to...
preventing child deaths in America
America Magazine asked me to write a short piece about America’s shameful discrepancies in child deaths. It wasn’t easy to squeeze 3 very different causes of death into 750 words, but I did my best. It was interesting (for me,...
addiction: the devil you can measure and the devil you can’t
Christopher Caldwell has an arresting essay in this month’s First Things: If you take too much heroin, your breathing slows until you die. Unfortunately, the drug sets an addictive trap that is sinister and subtle. It provides a euphoria—a feeling...