Thomas M. Ward

Honored to receive a Book Award from the Catholic Media Association, for After Stoicism. It won First Place in the History category: catholicmediaassociation.org/2025-cma-book-…

There's a pavement near me which the tree roots have seriously raised up. One has to step over it. Many councils would consider chopping the tree down. Instead, why not fill the area with bountiful planting and create a pavement bypass. More function and more beauty.

@alancornett St. Anthony has been a huge help in catechizing my kids. He NEVER lets them down. It's uncanny.

Just had St Anthony come through for me in finding something I needed to locate. 💪🏻

My Fellow Shakespeareans - I’ve recorded all 154 Sonnets for my latest project, “Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare”. This special audio production is available to listen to April 7. Preorder now: audible.com/pd/Patrick-Ste… @SimonAudio

@theRTMullins In my ignorance I continue to read Anselm too. First bump.

Here is the problem. Anselm's argument from divine simplicity to divine timelessness relies on the premise that "conceptual distinctions are foreign to God." But it is ignorant to quote Anselm saying that. So I guess reconstructing Anselm's argument is ignorance.

I am writing a lecture at the moment where I directly quote Anselm, but an internet classical theist recently told me that quoting Anselm makes me ignorant. I thought about quoting Avicenna instead, but that is also ignorant. I'm not sure what to do.

New Oxford postdoc - deadline 16 March: Barry Junior Research Fellowship in Natural Law Theory, Trinity College, Oxford trinity.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/…

remember the biggest threat is not that we will see machines as humans but that we we start to see humans as machines

@FreyChristopher Last year the pilots (on a domestic flight) gave my boys wings and it felt like a time warp.

Going through old photos with kids and they refuse to believe that flirting with a stewardess could gain you access to the cockpit of a Boeing 747 over the Atlantic. retvrn! 😂

.@UTCivics is introducing two new majors, Strategy and Statecraft and Great Books, opening this fall for students interested in national security or texts shaping Western civilization. The school is also developing a study abroad program to Israel, available for all @UTAustin students. thedailytexan.com/2026/02/05/sch…

Amazing Opportunity:

@HarrisonGarlic1 @DEGOPer @the_culturist_ Ignatius Press edition translated by Goins and Wyman is my overall favorite.

@DEGOPer @the_culturist_ That is a great question. I've read the Penguin one and the B&N version. Maybe @prof_tom_ward has a good recommendation. I don't recall asking him on the podcast - I should have.

Imagine awaiting your death in prison for a crime you did not commit. Imagine your anger, resentment, and sorrow. What would you do? ➡️Well, in AD 524, St. Boethius found himself in such a situation—but he did not break. Instead, he wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, one of the greatest works you could read. Lady Philosophy appears, challenging his despair through difficult questions: ➡️Why do the good suffer while the wicked thrive? ➡️What is true happiness when fortune betrays us? Through piercing dialogue, St. Boethius learns suffering strips away illusions—wealth, power, fame—and reveals the unchanging Good to which he must conform himself. St. Boethius invites you to join him—to allow Lady Philosophy to forge your soul in a beautiful, unbreakable resilience. More: theascent.io/p/how-st-boeth…

Waco has this cool thing, Brazos Fellows. And @pgutacker is making it happen.

Aw shucks.

Good stuff going on @TheGreatB00ks

I always tell my kids: every time you eat an artichoke, you create an aren'tichoke

A mesmerising film from 1900. A tram glides through Southampton High Street, pulling you into late Victorian life as it passes under the medieval Bargate and down the street.

@suzania one of the best songs.

Reading Ministry of Time, listening to Stan Rogers Northwest Passage, weeping

Calling dads! I am so excited to share this news. For months I have been telling you that the “dad’s study” is underway—it really is! We have conducted fifteen pilot interviews within a three-hour drive of the DMV region. We have cleaned up transcripts, looked for common threads, and refined our questions. We ready to hit the road and visit with dads all around the country. Please help us cast the widest net by sharing this call for subjects here on X and in your local networks and other socials, especially if you have contacts in one of our ten regions (below). Men beyond those regions may apply, and will be considered as research needs indicate. Continue reading for the full invitation and link to application. Let’s go! __ Attention families with 5+ children! We are inviting all American-born fathers who have 5 or more biological (or adopted) children to apply for our upcoming study “America’s Dads with the Most Kids: Motive and Meaning.” The purpose of this research is to understand why some American dads are choosing to build large, abundant families, and to learn from them what it takes to get there. To apply to participate in a private, in person, open-ended interview, please fill out the following survey: forms.gle/hz3GzARcLA12L4…. We are looking for participants especially in the following cities which we will visit in person. If you or someone you know lives in one of these areas, please forward this post or the survey link directly: New York City metropolitan area, NY-NJ-CT Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-OH Denver-Aurora, CO Chicago–Naperville, IL–IN–WI Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX San Francisco Bay Area, CA Phoenix-Scottsdale metropolitan area, AZ Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Again, please fill out the following survey to apply to offer your perspectives on fatherhood in a private interview: forms.gle/hz3GzARcLA12L4….

@millinerd Glorious

View of the cockpit for writing Mere Iconography (just before the semester begins). My wife will be canonized.

One of my 2025 highlights was a week of rafting on the Colorado River through Grand Canyon. Grateful to my dad for letting me accompany him on one of his most-cherished "bucket list" items. The trip inspired me to read this (excellent) book about hiking the Grand Canyon. Next-level stuff: a.co/d/02XSlX8

@AmyMantravadi Amen.

See all that awful in the world? The injustice, heartache, and futility? That is precisely what Christ died for. In fact, he didn’t just die for the injustices OUT THERE, but also for the injustices IN YOU and IN ME. By his wounds we all are healed.