Science is a crucial part of modern religiosity. By science, man proposes to conquer the world; by science, man proposes to achieve at least longevity and perhaps immortality; by science man claims to have dismissed the illusion of God. So
The churches of the West are fundamentally compromised not by doctrine but by motive. Many a church has basically serviceable doctrine. They know their soteriology to the point of salvation and farther. They are perfectly orthodox on God’s nature. But
Many a Christian- man, woman, father, mother, family- comes to the church in hopes of finding community. Then, all too often, he finds that while the church is friendly and despite all potlucks and after-Sabbath suppers, he never gets past
Humor is all sorts of stuff, all sorts of drama. Much of humor has not much of a point besides the joke itself. Anecdotes can be pointed, but just as often as not they’re pointless, just scenarios running of stereotypes
I am, as I’ve probably made sufficiently clear, a theonomist. I am also a Presbyterian, whatever my quarrels with certain parts of the tradition may be. I can offer only slightly-qualified endorsement to the 1788 Westminster Confession of Faith. But,
The PCA recently released an ‘interim report’ to some furor. The topic? In all the PR, Christian Nationalism (but more on that soon). The report itself is thirty-five pages that aren’t worth your time; the writing would be unexceptional if
“War,” it has been asserted, “never changes.” The sentiment is old and worn, found in government report and video game and meme all around. Many of its iterations elaborate. “War never changes. It only becomes more bloody and brutal,” one US
I do not trust judges, as a category, nearly as far as I can throw them. Judges are, as a rule, biased, trained in secularism, steeped in governmental power, blind to or participant in abuse, deferential to the government, and
I have now read Dune. I first conceived the ambition more than a year ago, and at last I have done it. So, do I recommend it? Well, yes, but not without reserve. Dune is written with undoubted skill and
In philosophy’s halls, relatively few provide reason to be remembered as artists, not just philosophers. Solomon, Plato, the author of Job, these have that distinction. The second half of the nineteenth century brought its own candidate: Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche, unlike