Not modernity’s callowness but a question of proper identity. ‘What clothes would you wear, if you wore the clothes most completely suited to you?’ This thought exercise does not require an answer, except the time spent in considering it. If
God is our legislator. The fundament of American government’s institution is the legislature. Congress makes the law; the executive enforces the law; the judiciary arbitrates the law’s enforcement. In theory, that is the American structure, repeated across fifty one constitutions.
That’s not good Inflation promotes hard work. Contrary to what you may think, looking at my Protestant bona fides, that’s not a good thing. Inflation promotes hard work, but it promotes a vicious perversion of hard work. The chain of
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
Santa Claus and Bacchus fit comfortably in the Narnian metaphysic. In reading The Chronicles of Narnia, you have perhaps gotten the occasional fits of the Tolkiens: uncontrollable disjointure from the narrative upon encountering Santa Claus or Bacchus. Indeed, to the reader
Three articles in a single go. The last three articles in Islander 5 we’ll take at a go, because (1) this series has gotten long enough (if I repeat it with #6, it’ll be less comprehensive) and (2) I have
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
Christian nationalist or not, that’s the Bible’s teaching. The Presbyterian Church of America is the largest Christ-accepting Presbyterian denomination in America, and it is the denomination I am currently a member of, in the institutional sense. The PCA is also
A part of this problem lies in an over-enamorment with physical vigor. Will Tanner’s article in Islander 5 (The Mercenaries) is a set of three historical vignettes between two framing statements regarding the locus of power in society, relative to
The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause must compete with another famous definition of the American government’s proper relationship with the church: Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, wherein he wrote of a “wall of separation between church and state” (Dreisbach).