Jeffrey Bilbro
@jeff_bilbro
Husband, father, gardener. Editor @frontporchrepub. English prof @GroveCtyCollege. Books: Words for Conviviality, Reading the Times, Virtues of Renewal...
If you're interested in preordering my forthcoming book, @Baylor_Press has a coupon for 20% off and free shipping. baylorpress.com/9781481319829/…
This is a great essay about a tragic situation, one I can relate to all too well. But it's another reminder how grateful I am to now be at Grove City, where we do have administrators who value and support the liberal arts.
I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in @nytimes. The standard story we hear is that students don't want it. But a darker reality is that even when it wins big with students and donors it loses with those in power. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opi…
So far this summer, I've written the first 16,000 words of a book manuscript on AI and the possibilities of living as creatures in a world designed for machines. But I'm still pretty happy with the arguments I sketched out in this essay.
“To the extent that we inhabit a culture where thought and writing have become effortless, we will also inhabit a culture incapable of responsible and redemptive relationships.” @jeff_bilbro plough.com/en/topics/life…
Read @jeff_bilbro at @CTmagazine today on church in a time of brain rot (unlocked link): christianitytoday.com/2025/07/church…
I wrote for @CTmagazine about Nicholas Carr, Ivan Illich, and the role of the church in a digitally connected society. christianitytoday.com/2025/07/church…
Coming in September from @MoodyPublishers: Practicing Life Together: A Common Rule for Christian Growth
A Love for Reading and Reading for Love hubs.li/Q03yrnT80
I am deeply saddened by the news of Jane’s death. I never met her, but she was a boisterous, provocative, funny online penpal, and, most importantly, a poet of rare lyric grace. It was an honor to publish the poem below earlier this summer.
Some lit journals pay nothing. Today, appreciatively, I received a modest check from @utulsa for this poem, which appeared in @NimrodJournal last month. Editor-in-chief @BorisDralyuk and his excellent young staff put out a first-class journal that respects the folks it publishes.
Do books make good friends? Do they make *readers* who can be good friends? I tackle these questions in this review essay for @mereorthodoxy. mereorthodoxy.com/a-love-for-rea…
Dixie Dillon Lane: What happens when we are blistered and swollen and yet the pilgrimage is still there, its yellow arrows pointing us left, right, and beyond? frontporchrepublic.com/2025/07/bliste…
To my knowledge, the closest he comes to a specific date is here: "The predictions of the apocalypse are accomplished already, as far as the white horse. The world cannot stand long, perhaps a hundred years at the outside" (TT #769). But 100 years post-pub would be c. 1640.
Did Martin Luther actually say somewhere he believed the world would end before 1600? The book I'm reading cites this blog post as evidence, but this source doesn't link to anything conclusive either. laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/the…
Ben's a class act and models a rooted life of service.
Ben Woodard is a @GroveCtyCollege alumn and the owner and lead arborist of Woodman Tree Service, the premier tree service in western Pennsylvania. His story is one of discerning God's call on his life, ultimately finding his place as a husband, father, and small business owner in…
It's my birthday, and I'm celebrating in Hobbity fashion! I commissioned two bookmarks from @EfficacyOfGrace for readers who pre-order The Dignity of Dependence. We worked together brainstorming art that spoke to interdependence at every scale. otherfeminisms.com/p/preorder-rew…
In which I recommend essays by @Jenpmichel, @Chris_arnade, @jennfrey, @JoshuaHeavin, @amjuster, @clairekelloway, @jenmacramos, @SarahSoltis02, @moveincircles, and others.
In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about markets, slop, and Alyosha. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/07/market…
If you are a European historian, come work with me! And if you know a good one, feel free to pass this along. gcc.edu/Utility/Portal…
“Poetry reading” doesn’t always look like this! This Sat 7/19 in Bethesda MD hear a live poetry reading from @newversereview poets @amjuster, @claudiagary, Ned Balbo & Jane Satterfield, with a brief taste of @dacooperpoet & yours truly! Link below.
Two pieces on AI in @commentmag today, by James Cornwell and Joshua Heavin.
In today's piece, Adam Smith speaks with Congresswoman Marie Glusenkamp Perez about politics and place, and her particular work. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/07/the-lo…↗
When an author refers to "David" Alter's *Art of Biblical Poetry* in the opening pages, and then proceeds to distort Alter's argument, it reduces his credibility.