Bearing God's Image Thoroughly
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
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
My first cuisine blog Today’s a short one and quite divorced from my usual content. No matter. Today, I go into a little bit of odd knowledge I have, including the two foods that stick the longest on the taste
You become what you do. We become what we practice. My life is, from the eternal perspective, a cavalcade of actions, thoughts, and desires in sequence, the past forming the present forming the future, all in call-and-response to the world
Will AI replace your doctor? We tried with lawyers, which didn’t go well (judges don’t appreciate the hallucinated citations). We’re dead-set on trying with artists, and the result is the mass sloppification of the internet. Why not try with doctors?
We can take the Bible’s course instead. For the curious, an immensely updated and re-worked version of this is available here. Men like Ben Shapiro occasionally come out with genius statements about the evils of retirement. What everybody hears (and
“In all the long wars with the Dark Tower, treason has ever been our greatest foe.” In the modern world, we have plenty of dark forces to point to. Child murderers to the left of me; warmongers to the right;
Or R.L. Dabney on Northern Conservatism There is a sort of conservatism which has been popular ever since people recognized the difference between what we used to do and what we could do. Let us, in reference to that excellent