The Argument Major Premise: Everything contained in the moral law derives from the greatest commandments: "love the Lord your God" and "love your neighbor as yourself." Minor Premise: The greatest commandments are knowable by nature. Conclusion: Everything contained in the moral law derives from thi… Read more…

[A term paper I wrote for my course Natural Law and Natural Rights at Davenant Hall. This version does not include citations: for those get the PDF here.] Introduction On March 17, 2022, news media around the world broke the story that Amazon acquired the famous MGM film studio. Included in this purchase were the righ… Read more…

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…

[A repost from my last blog, with which I still 95% agree.] Christianity doesn’t have the place it once did in the West. This has raised a lot of questions for Christians, particularly those who actually believe in the historic faith. Some people think Christendom was a bad idea to begin with, others think it was good … Read more…

On a first viewing of Frozen, there is perhaps no moment more likely to get a laugh out of the whole audience than a little twist near the end of "In Summer." As Olaf the snowman skips through his fantasy of a bright summer field, he approaches a tiny puddle where the snow has melted and gaily declares: Wint… Read more…

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…

Yesterday I read an article reporting that 1 in 4 young adults surveyed by the CDC admitted to thoughts of suicide during coronavirus lockdowns. Obviously, this should be the most pressing and discussed of all the news coming out in These Unprecedented Times™, and, even more obviously, it's not even close to being so. … Read more…

When I finally read all the way through Mere Christianity for the first time last year, I recall being particularly struck by C. S. Lewis' brief description of what he imagines a properly Christian society would look like. It doesn't match the categories used commonly in contemporary American socio-political discourse,… Read more…

As churches across America, and to a lesser extent other countries, struggle with stay-at-home orders and regulations on public gatherings, the basic elements of ecclesiology and political theology become increasingly relevant where, not that long ago, they may have easily seemed to be only of pedantic, ivory-tower int… Read more…