What is realistic? Many a story is alleged by those who read it to be ‘unrealistic,’ for all sorts of reasons. Some of these complaints are perfectly correct, in theory, if not always in application. Characters can strain past the
The art of writing lies in what you don’t write. The art of writing lies not just in what you write but in what you don’t write. Sometimes the ‘don’t write’ is a positive command, a moral injunction. Often, however,
Too many churches are locally hostile to His law. Antinomianism, fully worked out, is a heresy. Antinomianism, partially worked out, causes immense pain and sin on this earth. Antinomianism, barely conceived, is endemic in the Christian church, even in the
Don’t tell the government. “It is a principle of common sense,” Spencer Roane said (pg. 145, Irreconcilable Founders), “as well as common law, that a deputy cannot make a deputy. The power of changing the government was, therefore, not bested
Contra Ed ‘They Bought My Seat’ Gallrein “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Thus
In practice, yes. Is revival prerequisite to a Christian government? The question is a significant divide in the world of Christian Nationalism. Stephen Wolfe argues that it isn’t, that revival is “not the only antecedent condition” to Christian laws, though
A complicated topic. Among the ideas at once most thoroughly pervasive of theology’s crossover with philosophy and the least immediately obvious from Scripture, in my experience at least, is the doctrine of the absolute unity of God. Every Christian knows
State, Church, Family…? The civil government usually claims, now and across human history, to be the distinguishing and unitary factor of each society. On occasion the religious institution, the ‘church,’ makes a grab for the same, but it does so
Some often unrecognized parts of his mastery. Tolkien is recognized far and wide as a master of worldbuilding, of language, and of legend. Some dislike his implementations. Some despise his theology. Some say a lot of things. But, as a
Partisanship just isn’t avoidable. [As of transfer to this archive, I’m not as confident in this article as at time of writing, though it makes valid points.] Gerrymandering is a difficult topic to analyze. We can all see the blaring