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
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
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
We’re doing two articles today. Today we’re doing two articles from Islander V. The first article is interesting in itself, but I don’t have the need to respond to it in depth. It’s an examination of how various cultures, from
Moral issues can break pragmatic policy. You may have caught on by now that while this is a ‘review’ in the sense that it does often summarize and recommend, in design this is more of a ‘response’ to the various
This article proffers a dichotomy without recognizing its asymmetry. Von Hoffmeister’s article is a bit of a dud for me. Do not take this as calling it a bad article; I have an objection to its statements, but my central
This article fails to convince me. From John David Ebert (a name I’ve never heard before) comes to me the least useful of the articles so far in Islander #5. The article has an intriguing start and much of interest