Nick Freiling

"I am quite certain that neither love nor grief can ever be excessive; each is its own absolute measure, and knows its own proper proportions. And, as a rule, we generally fail to love or grieve nearly as much as we ought to do." ~David Bentley Hart

"Throughout the history of the church, Christians have keenly desired to believe that the New Testament affirms the kind of people we are, rather than – as is actually the case – the kind of people we are not, and really would not want to be. The first, perhaps most crucial…

Chain smoker, live-in gay assistant, 35-year bachelor, eventual marriage outside the church. It's hard not to suspect that CS Lewis' lifestyle would have all-but disqualified him from Christian ministry (in the form of his books) in modern America – especially among the…

"A future which is completely impossible, like the ideal of the Spanish anarchists, degrades us far less and differs far less from the eternal than a possible future. It does not even degrade us at all, except through the illusion of its possibility. If it is conceived of as…

Owen Barfield lived to be 99 years old. He died in 1997. Is it just me, or is that surprising? He was born just two weeks before CS Lewis, yet was alive when Coldplay was a band.

Trump has done very little "explaining" this term. He answers lots of journalist questions, but I tend to think enough of the angst about, say, deportations might be quelled by a more carefully-delivered statement about what, exactly, is going on that such statements would be…

I think the downside of drawing (or gerrymandering) electoral districts to be way dark red/blue is that these districts are often responsible for electing the partisan whackos that make life much harder than it would otherwise be for their fellow party-members. Tradeoffs!

Remember when everyone was spotting those drones over New Jersey? And every video someone uploaded was clearly of an airplane? And that each airplane could be verified with historical flight data, yet people still refuse to believe these were anything but UFOs? That was truly…

People often say that things taste like "battery acid." I hear this semi-regularly (about, say, Coke Zero). But how do so many people know what battery acid tastes like? Who was the first person to open a battery and stick their tongue in?

There is not really an obvious or predictable through-line across Trump's eccentric "nationalist" economic approach. Whether it "works" or not, I fully expect the whole project to collapse the second he's out of office. Its biggest supporters take what he says way further than…

I fish the intracoastals in Jacksonville a ton. In the spring and fall, I go 2-3 times/week. I also have 5 kids and I take them to local parks and playgrounds all the time – again, 2-3 times/week. It strikes me that if there were not immigrants here, these fishing docks and…

I just discovered that my 4yo has been wearing up to four pairs of underwear simultaneously. He says that layering them makes changing in the morning faster – rather than have to take off old undies and put on new ones, he just takes one pair off and still has one on.

I wrote another brief essay 👇 I've had this thought in my head for the better part of a decade, but I haven't wanted even to put words to it because I find the question itself so profoundly stupid. Yet the question is asked (and answered incorrectly) all the time, usually as…

I did not actually know who Hulk Hogan was until today 😬

A cheeseburger from 5 Guys is the same exact price as a 2023 Dodge Challenger

Trump is always less confrontational in person than he is from afar. Much better to be the opposite!

Launch this man and this damnable idea on a one-way rocket to the next galaxy. A win-win for everyone.