Just before her 20th birthday, Erin Gillard received a love letter like no other—one that was poured directly into her heart. catholicweekly.com.au/this-lent-will… catholicweekly.com.au/this-lent-will…

Brant Pitre (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) has a new book coming out through Joost Eerdmans. amazon.com/Jesus-Divine-C… 18/

This is legitimately horrifying and anti-human, and I think that, based on this advertisement alone, I will find alternatives to buying Apple products in the future. Tech ought to exist in service of human wisdom, dignity, and art. This hits too close to home, and is awful.

Surprisingly honest. Not even trying to hide what they’re up to anymore; not even remotely ashamed to be suggesting the fake not only as a replacement for the real but as that which obliterates genuine tools of human creativity. Pure disembodied hubris in action.

Dear theologians and philosophers, can we please have more articles like this about deification? adoremus.org/2024/05/saint-…

Introduce Get API - A Dead simple Rest Client for macOS ⚡️ - ✅ Aim to become an Alternative for Postman / Insomnia in the near future - 🍎 Native macOS. Fast and Simple. - ⭐️ Simple license, no subscription, buy one, use forever with 1 year of update - Import from Postman

The first of these Loeb giveaways, then: the nine-volume set of Early Greek Philosophy. A bedtime book if ever there were one. Or nine! To enter the draw, just share this tweet and cross your fingers for Monday 10 May!

In case you missed the big news this week... Riven will launch on June 25th! See below for the new launch trailer and all the details ⤵️

The Iliad > Troy Story

Happy WWDC week! You can soon expect Point-Free episodes on a variety of topics, including: • Advanced concurrency • Consuming/borrowing • Swift's testing framework …and a lot more. To get access to all of that (and a 25% discount), subscribe today! pointfree.co/blog/posts/143…

Our second Summer Loeb Draw! All five volumes of Plautus' comedies, containing 21 plays edited by one of the great Classicists of our age. To enter, just retweet this message and we'll draw a random follower from the list on Friday 21 June! Anyone can enter, so good luck to all.

Ok, Loeb give-away number 3: all 5 volumes of the lovely Greek Anthology, Propertius on the thrills & spills of love, Lucan on civil chaos, Cicero on the meaning of life, & Gellius on trivia worth knowing. Draw will be on Wed 3 July. Just retweet & follow us to be in the running!

Excited to announce that my latest monograph has just been published! YOU CAN READ AND DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE BOOK FOR FREE, courtesy of the John Templeton Foundation . Click "Open Access" on the right. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

On to Loeb Give-away IV: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Hesiod & the Homeric Hymns, Cicero on the gods, Catullus & Tibullus on love and loss, Ovid lustily on the same (sometimes roleplaying as famous women), and Marcus Aurelius' tutor on all sorts. Just RT this before draw on 11 July!

OK, our final -and biggest- Loeb give-away for the summer: 31 of them by the looks of it! Sophocles, Euripides, Cicero, Sallust, Suetonius, and the dirtiest poet of all, Martial in 3 vols. Draw 10pm Thurs BST: just RT and follow us before then! And vote below for 1 or 2 winners!

Imagine your soul has wings. Sin is like covering the wings in a thick filth, a muck inhibiting flight. Yet, many think the goal is to have clean wings. But the purpose of wings is to fly. This is why the purpose of the Christian life is not reducible to “do not sin.”

Introducing: Swift Navigation 🎉 Swift Navigation is a new library that brings SwiftUI-like navigation and bindings to *all* platforms, from UIKit to Wasm to Windows and more! Learn about it here: pointfree.co/blog/posts/149…