Matthew J. Milliner

Art historian, author of Mother of the Lamb (2022), "a book of remarkable scholarship combined with deep humanity." -Peter Brown

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

ACT NOW! You can get my #MaterialMysticism essay at @commentmag FOR FREE 1x per month if you sign up IN THE NEXT 30 SECONDS by submitting your email at the link below so ACT NOW (actually, it's always free, but ACT NOW ANYWAY). https://t.co/nn4OEsVqQv

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

Haven't seen this but my sense from the preview is that the revolt against the false intimacy of chatbots continues apace. https://t.co/gDCUNvAsr0

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

@FredFredSanders We will resist.

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

University of Chicago adopts (i.e. mandates) AI for all students and faculty. On the other hand, our wilderness Advanced Integrative Seminar immersion @WheatonCollege into Ojibwe culture, including canoeing to the best pictographs in the Boundary Waters, was amazing.

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

Classic.

[Patrick Schreiner ☧ @pj_schreiner]

Augustine on tongues.

"Therefore, since also now he [the Holy Spirit] is received, someone might ask, Why does no one speak in the languages of all nations?

Because now the Church herself speaks in the languages of all nations. Before the Church was in one nation, when it was speaking in the languages of all.

By speaking in the languages of all it signified the future, that, by growing through the nations, it might speak in the languages of all."

- Augustine, Tractate on John 32.2.

[Fred Sanders @FredFredSanders]

That's the vibe going into summer 2026.

[love drops @lovedropx]

Me and my friends getting left behind by AI

[Fr Matthew C. Dallman, Obl.S.B. @FrMCDallman]

The book—The Life of Martin Thornton and Selected Writings— which I prepared for the Breck Conference next month, arrived today from the printer!

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

The wilderness can’t save you (said by a guy about to go into the wilderness again with fourteen intrepid students). https://t.co/VvJIo3ekAd

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

All I have to say about Seraphim Rose is I’m so very glad he gave up on Alan Watts: https://t.co/cynEzWYW8t

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

“Varley paints Christ’s descent deeper into creation in order to transform it, while Harris’s painting, which recalls the lingam of a Hindu temple, marks the first step of an escape.” https://t.co/ZHGBIB59si

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

Problem solved: https://t.co/K82x9Wf2Bd

[Mere Orthodoxy @mereorthodoxy]

Buildings That Preach: The 2025 World Building of the Year and the Crisis of Beauty
https://t.co/NKCocsh5cQ

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

@belzpoems Whatever it was, it just got spanked!

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

Wow to the deadness. https://t.co/YvYYiInHgj

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

So it turns out that writing is thinking. It's the same process.

"Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner."

Outsourcing writing to LLMs is THE SAME THING as outsourcing thinking.

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

Uno mas!

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

If you don’t have time for a longer chapel talk…

[Paul J. Pastor @pauljpastor]

I am deeply honored to have won the 2025 J.F. Powers Prize for Fiction, for my short story "Minus World." I look forward to you all being able to read it in the pages of @DappledThings1 later this year.

Congrats to Olakunle and Mohammad as well, and to all the writers here.

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

A word from Martin Luther's Commentary on Galatians: "faith without works is nothing and empty… faith without work… is a mere daydream and illusion of the heart; it is false and does not justify." https://t.co/QWuO9lveI9

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

Just some of what's on offer in @commentmag 's Toronto the Holy https://t.co/ZHGBIB59si