I watched a ten second clip in which a man was killed. Charlie Kirk opened his mouth to speak; the side of his neck exploded outwards; he fell to the ground. Some time later, he died, despite all efforts to
Theology and writing have a sometimes fraught interaction. Art has an apparent opposition to theology, if we consider how awful preachiness can get, how making a story into a tract makes it a very bad story. At the same time,
Tautologies, we all know, are useless; definitions, meanwhile, are useful. Yet a definition, once we get down to the brass tacks of it, is very nearly a tautology; both sides of the equation, ideally, have not only the same meaning
The problem of the world is that it doesn’t cultivate righteousness. Modern society is, as I laid out last week, hostile to God, hostile therefore to healthy relationships between men. This isn’t unusual, historically, but it still means we need
This is Part Two of a series (I, II) on the origination of fascism and communism within liberalism. Last week we considered the nature of philosophical-intellectual lineages, introduced the two liberalisms, and defined fascism and communism. We pick up this
I read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism a few months ago, and the whole time I read the book, one problem with Goldberg’s position plagued me: his insistence on classical liberalism (the English version, I think, in fairness to him) as
The world of the Medieval Scholastics was shaken by a great question: nominalist, conceptualist, or realist? To many of us, these terms are strange or oddly placed. ‘Realism’ seems understandable, but what about the other two? Conceptualism and nominalism are
Last week, we looked at the dichotomy between a sin’s historic fact and its moral guilt as they relate to redemption arcs. I asserted that redemption arcs are just not quite possible, in their fullness, outside of the Christian understanding,
The redemption arc is a difficult but powerful tool in the writer’s arsenal; it’s an even more difficult thing to undergo in real life, as Saul of Tarsus could no doubt tell you. See, sin exists. Because men sin and
Note: This paper was written for college- hence the Works Cited includes course resources not publicly available. Originally titled: “At The Center, God.” The atheistic conception of the world by necessity bases its understanding of a hypothetical spiritual (or mental)