About
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
–St. Paul, Romans 12:2
“Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”
–Flannery O’Connor
What is Plainly?
Plainly approaches politics, philosophy, religion, technology, and life from the perspective of commonsense.
It is born of the conviction that much of modernity is superficial, obfuscatory, and nihilistic. With tortured neologisms, theoretical pretenses, and shameless emotivism, the spirit of the age has done immense damage to man and his inheritance.
We take seriously C.S. Lewis’ warning about the abolition of man and men without chests, and aim to do our part to push back against the age with those ordinary and wondrous things made rare: Plain language and commonsense.
About the writer
My name is Chris. I’m a Christian, a husband, a father, and a pragmatic technologist.
I live in Western Pennsylvania, and enjoy reading old essays and books, tinkering on software and servers, and working on my 150-year-old farmhouse in the woods. I build and direct technology at Beck&Stone, a design-driven consultancy.
I’ve been building on the web for over two decades, and got my start at Automattic, the company stewarding the WordPress project.