What is free will? The words ‘Free will’ can start a firefight. As with most ideas of great controversy, it has nearly as many definitions as its controversy has contenders. Calvinists have one definition, Arminians another, other Calvinists a third,
The modern day is cold and swift and made of mechanism, number turning number…. To Eomer, nephew of Theoden, Aragorn declared a reminder apt to us in the modern day (as Tolkien is wont to be): “The green earth, say
Intellectual rigor and consistency means applying our principles across the board. Intellectual rigor and consistency means applying our principles across multiple situations, without exceptions that aren’t justified by the principles themselves. In the current situation, that means evaluating the reasons
Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle! – Ps. 24:8 In these days of renewing war, many a man feels himself equipped with the secret to military success, the tech or
A beautiful artform with more subtleties than is often taught. The first poem which made me want to read more poetry was The Fall of Arthur, an unfinished work by J.R.R. Tolkien. I had already read Beowulf (Heaney’s translation), but The Fall of Arthur drove
Is ‘evil’ a substance? In his Confessions, Augustine of Hippo proposed a peculiar idea of sin: that sin did not exist as a separate substance but rather as a lack of goodness. In a word, sin was a nonexistence, something omitted rather
AI is all the rage nowadays. Rage about its use, and rage to use it. Artificial intelligence is the wave of the future, some proclaim. Others call it a dud. The fact is, it’s not quite either. It’s a potentially
Writing advice is sometimes less helpful than it sounds. Across my years as an active writer of fiction, particularly long-form fiction (novels- one published so far), I’ve dabbled in all sorts of writing advice, and I’ve come up with my own.
All 7 posts Six Answers for Kevin DeYoung on ‘Christian Nationalism’ (I) A good article, with questions I can answer What is Christian Nationalism? I pinned a question something like that to the top of my X account for a while (and
Contra how many Reformed folks act…. Reformed thought has a grave weakness- not universal but widespread nonetheless. Reformed thought is a beautiful, austere structure of crystalline logic, flaming with fire, lighting in its holders a high and heroic devotion to