Courses in Unreality: The Trouble with Modern Stories

The other day, as my wife and I were watching a pretty unobjectionable TV show, we came upon an all too common development. The protagonist was in love with a woman who was already engaged to some inferior man, and at the last moment she experienced a crisis of heart and called off the wedding. Now she is free to recon… Read more…
Monday 2/07/2022

Cometh Any to Judge the Earth? (Approaches to Defending the Faith Term Paper)

On the Human Need for a Reckoning [A term paper I wrote for my course Approaches to Defending the Faith at Davenant Hall. This version does not include citations: for those get the PDF here.] Introduction "Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth."1 This sentiment, expressed by the bibli… Read more…
Monday 12/27/2021

Living in the Un-world

In certain corners of the Internet, such as among my Twitter mutuals, a certain app has suddenly come to everyone's attention. It may not last long, but for the moment people "Are Reacting" to artwork created by WOMBO Dream app. Here is one of its masterpieces: The Dream app uses AI to turn a few keywords a… Read more…
Thursday 12/09/2021

🦋 Is This Exile?

On Whether the Church Is In Exile To think of the Church as a people perpetually in exile is a most grievous confusion. Though it is now popular, especially (perhaps ironically) among Christians of great influence and name recognition, to speak this way, the claim is mostly confused. On the surface perhaps my objection… Read more…
Tuesday 10/19/2021

The Conspiracy of God

[A repost from a previous blog] The moon landing was a hoax. Chemtrails are poisoning our brains. Roswell is covering up an alien spacecraft. Obama is a secret Muslim. Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams. The Illuminati run the world. Everyone knows about conspiracy theories. Most of us don't believe most of them, of cou… Read more…
Wednesday 7/28/2021

On Loving Self

However much we know love, we also in many ways do not know it. We do not always see it for what it is, but from time to time we see startling glimpses into its reality. These flashes of light come from all manner of revelation. Sometimes we experience purest love in a dark night from a kind soul, or we may awaken to i… Read more…
Monday 7/26/2021

On Idolatry and the Modern World

In the beginning, God made man in His image, to be His kings and queens in creation. But man was young and inexperienced. For reasons known only to God, he was dependent on this strange process of learning by observation, reasoning, and abstraction. In order to train man for his royal office and protect him, he was pla… Read more…
Wednesday 7/07/2021