Modern life forms us before we notice.
NOVUS PATHWAYS
Living wisely in contemporary life.
NOVUS Pathways offers practical tools for examining what shapes attention, desire, judgment, relationships, faith, and the good life.
How to Use this Page
Start with one practice. Use it slowly. Return to it more than once. These tools are meant for ordinary moments: a decision about technology, a conflict at work, a conversation with a child, a restless evening, a habit you cannot seem to break, or a desire you need to examine.
Each pathway names an area of life being shaped. Each practice gives you a concrete way to examine and respond to that formation.
NOVUS Pathways translates philosophical clarity and Christian wisdom into ordinary practices for life in a technological age.
AI Wisdom
BRACE
A custom prompt for using AI applications including Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT, as a thinking aid rather than an authority or flattering authority.
Discerning Life
Reading Recommendations
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Culture, and Mental Health, Human flourishing, and spiritual formation.
Attentive Life
Daily Reflection
A practice for examining what has claimed your attention and what it is forming in you.