Articles by Casey Chalk

About Casey Chalk
Casey Chalk is a contributor for Crisis Magazine, The American Conservative, and New Oxford Review. He has degrees in history and teaching from the University of Virginia and a master's in theology from Christendom College.
The Dispatch

When I die, do not cremate me!

May 15, 2020 Casey Chalk 25

There’s something inexplicably profound about the dead, buried body, even as it decays to bones and dust. It reminds man of his morality, while suggesting, via the tension of a corpse that looks and feels […]

The Dispatch

COVID-19, consumerism, and acedia

April 27, 2020 Casey Chalk 9

Stuff — whether material possessions or fleeting entertainment experiences — can’t make us happy. We all know this. Yet many responses to COVID-19, despite its convergence with Lent, proved the depth of our consumerist proclivities. […]