I have read a fair amount of Gordon Clark, and because I agree with him as a rule, I very much enjoy disagreeing with him when he is wrong: his errors are generally intelligent and notable (see this article for
Read MoreWelcome to Creational Story
Welcome to my blog! I’m Colson Potter, author with one book published at time of posting and more coming. This blog covers those topics I believe I can speak valuably upon: writing, politics, theology, philosophy, and the intersections of the four, to the glory of God.
A new article goes up every Monday; short stories and poems (as well as extras) go up when they are ready for public exposure or when I stumble across them in my computer six months later.
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What’s What on Here
The Blog Here you can find all the weekly articles. Theology Here you can find articles focused on theology. Writing Here you can find articles focused on the art and theory of writing. Politics Here you can find articles focused
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Language, Literal and Figurative
I have read a fair amount of Gordon Clark, and because I agree with him as a rule, I very much enjoy disagreeing with him when he is wrong: his errors are generally intelligent and notable (see this article for
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The Death of Common Law
‘Ignorance of the law is no excuse.’ So say the legal textbooks, the judge’s rulings, and all the cavalcade of legal orthodoxy. Yet on the face of it, this seems unjust. How can I be accountable to a law I
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Eowyn: Through Darkness, Unto Bloom
Eowyn stands as perhaps my favorite female character in all of fiction. A few there are which stand near her- Harriet Vane, for instance- and a few I will acknowledge as being, to my experience, as well written- Orual (Till
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The Courts: Power Evading Duty
Men always want more power. Separation of powers, as Montesquieu laid it out, is a means of playing this cupidity against itself. The American implementation is not so focused on the balancing of classes as Montesquieu was (albeit some element
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Authenticity, Sincerity, and Hollywood
Hollywood stories have been getting a bad reputation- ‘Hollywood’ being a catch-all for the big money film industry, here. The Rings of Power show, for instance, possibly had greater cultural impact in how its critics pulled it apart than in