Preachifying is a discipline prosecuted across the country on a regular basis. Some of its practitioners take it as an opportunity for blasphemy. Some restrain themselves to mere heresy. A few have a higher standard; they make an effort to,
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
Perhaps it is strange that I, a Tennessean and an American, should write my first candidate-specific political article on a British politician like Rupert Lowe. At any rate, I’ve been following British politics for a while now, seeing their tailspin
Carl Benjamin’s article is a good start So, let’s start with a disclosure: I’m only part of the way through Islander #5. It’s not a quick read, requiring both analysis as you go and some time to digest. Thus far, the
Martin, Warhammer, Tolkien: The Relationship of Morality With Power Morality’s relationship to power is a classic problem (one I brush up against in my novel). Is righteousness doomed? Does might make right? Is morality a silly pretense in a world of
The description given by an Anglo-Saxon poem holds true today. My second favorite poem in all the world is The Wanderer, an Old English work narrating the contemplations of a man deprived of his place in the world, sent forth an
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
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
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