Posts
Before the 2024 election
Disingenuous arguments against the death penalty
In the future AI will do the jobs that humans do poorly now
The Jungle
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The solvent of moral judgment
Could we not make screen time a class issue?
Relictus
Ten lessons from a degree in biblical studies
Deplatforming and the public square
Holy, holy, holy
Discourse/epistemic markers are not uses of exclusive language
The Picture of Dorian Gray (a brief review)
Thinking makes it so (pt. 3)
Thinking makes it so (revisited)
My Religion (Tolstoy)
The Light Ages by Seb Falk
Enneagram
Incommensurate quantities (again)
Manufactured tempests in teapots
The Matrix Resurrections
Thinking makes it so
NLT: Good translation, bad advertising
I’m proud to be embarrassed other Christians
The Platonic Ideal of Pilau
Books I read in 1393
Point/Counterpoint: COVID-19 & Sex Education
Let’s just be clear: we’re the ones who get decide whether you cover your face or not
What is the fundamental question of epistemology?
Atlas Shrugged
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christ announces end of ‘toxic’ relationship with Nebraska man
Real life Gettier-type exception
Is Jesus Really God?
Is Christianity Too Narrow?
Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering?
Is There a God?
Does Life Have a Purpose?
Leaving social media
Hammarskjöld: A Life
Thinking and Expertise
More on echo chambers: skepticism as an antidote to cynicism?
Books I read in 1392
Books I read in 1391
Charlottesville
Decriminalize drugs at the federal level and let the States experiment
The New Jim Crow
War and Peace
Books I read in 1390
You know what would make this line move faster? If I stood a little closer to you
In which the computer guesses my personality from my blog posts
Fake News & Unavoidable Narratives
Make economic immigration radically easier, and build a wall
The best fail video of 2016—perhaps of all time
Books I read in 1389
Books I read in 1388
A People’s History of the United States
Contemporary Christian Music Industry Attains Incarnational Presence in Nation’s Elevators After Decades-Long Effort
The Moral Vision of the New Testament
A bit of sanity in an insane election cycle
The Idea of a University
Psalms
Cultivation, Pt. 2: The narrative
Cultivation
Reflections on The Fellowship
Speculation Grows About Unspoken Prayer Request
Controversy as the meaning of shalom expands to the breaking point
Reductio ad vim: a fallacy for our time
The moral implications of individualism and collectivism
Losing Faith
Politics and postmodern decision making
Loving Trump Supporters
Ten Questions
Lila, by Marilynne Robinson
The Insecurity of Totalitarianism
Further Markings
Do Christians and Zoroastrians worship the same God?
Loving the Islamic State
When Helping Hurts
Refugee/Migrant
Paul of Tarsus, advocate of gender neutrality
Markings
Advice for my kids (someday)
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, by William Law
Quitting the news
Rupture
Worrying about Heaven
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Lost World of Scripture
The Grapes of Heavy-Handed Moralizing
Science will not resolve the MMR/autism controversy
Short story concept note
More on Walking with the poor
Walking with the Poor: When you try to be holistic and end up just being offensive
I don’t know why C.S. Lewis was not a pacifist
Moral ciphers
Media fast
Implied precision
Profitable charity!
Induction again
Foot in the door
The Narnian
Reflections on a discipline
Ancient Near Eastern Thought & Contemporary Western Thought
Categories
Evil perverting good
Introduction to Christianity
Among an alien people
Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
A recent reflection
Is from ought
Introduction to Christianity, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Barnaby Rudge
An appreciation of a book that will never be read again
Embracing ambiguity in moral judgments
Exclusion and Embrace: the big-picture review
On the shores of the Lethe: is oblivion the best we can do in addressing the problem of evil?
Bombs away
My contribution and my society’s contribution: a recycled college admission essay
Two portraits of the other
Exclusion and Embrace is an excellent book; now what are we talking about?
Galileo’s trial and the anthropocentrism of scientific discovery
Three cheers for initiative
His Bondange and Our Bondage
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