Hi, I’m Chase. Welcome to my site. I write about faith, media, and story on Substack @ScribblingImages.

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  • Christian prof devotional

    This new collection by Integratio Press is edited by my friend John Dunaway (PhD Duke University, longtime prof at Mercer U), and includes two entries by yours truly.

  • Ignatian Spirituality and Media Ecology

    Making some connections between faith, media, and imagination… “When asked in an interview what the Catholic faith meant to him, McLuhan replied, ‘Prayer and paying attention.’ I can’t imagine a more Ignatian response, nor a better antidote to the disorientation wrought by modern media ecologies. It’s how we find God in all things.”

  • On joining the Catholic Church…

  • Wombs, Tombs, and the “Wonderful Things” of God

    What do George Vanderbilt, King Tut, and Jesus have in common? Is there anything to learn from it? I wrote this (admittedly strange) piece after my wife and I visited Biltmore House during Christmas. Hopefully it’s somewhat illuminative.

  • Attention and Adoration: An Advent Reflection

    (This article was originally published on Christian Scholar’s Review’s Christ Animated Learning Blog during Advent, 2022. There are one or two points I would nuance if I were to revise it, but the important things continue to ring true.) Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.–Simone Weil We have an…

  • Turkey, Tolkien, and the Honorable Path

    Or, “Thanksgiving, Hobbits, and the Way of Ennoblement” (my latest in Christian Scholars Review)

  • Welcome, folks.

    With all the social media platforms, who needs their own website? Most of us, it seems. I’ll use this as a sort of digital homepage to link to various content, especially my published articles and blogs. At some point, I’ll write about why this site (and my Substack) is called Scribbling Images. For now, just…