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The last in my series on the necessity of national moral development to avoid the fall of civilizations.
The Great Task Remaining Before Us
Part 6/End
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September 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The last in my series on the necessity of national moral development to avoid the fall of civilizations.
Part five of my series on the fall of America due to our lack of purposeful character development.
That This Nation Might Live
Part 5
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September 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Part five of my series on the fall of America due to our lack of purposeful character development.
Part 4 of my series on the lessons learned from America's fall due to our lack of purposeful character development.
Acting Anew
Part 4
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September 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Part 4 of my series on the lessons learned from America's fall due to our lack of purposeful character development.
My latest post in a series on the fall of American virtue.
Thinking Anew
Part 3
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August 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My latest post in a series on the fall of American virtue.
Part 2 of my series on the collapse of America due to an absence of active moral development.
To Live Through All Time
Part 2
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August 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Part 2 of my series on the collapse of America due to an absence of active moral development.
First in a series on the fall of the American Republic as caused by our failure to actively cultivate virtue.
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Part 1
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August 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
First in a series on the fall of the American Republic as caused by our failure to actively cultivate virtue.
My latest blog post.
Rejecting young-earth creationism out of respect for scripture
Young-earth creationism is often framed as being demanded by a high view of scripture. I say otherwise.
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July 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My latest blog post.
My latest blog post
What is sin?
Can you tell me? Do you think you know?
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June 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
My latest blog post
My latest blog post
The? Unforgivable? Sin
I’ve seen so many people anxious about whether they’ve committed the unforgivable sin. (And no, they have not.) Let’s look at what they’re talking about, why they are very sadly confused, and why we s...
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June 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My latest blog post
Farscape: an astronaut becomes lost in space and finds the universe is filed with horny, psychotic Muppets.
Battlestar Galactica: humanity flees into space after being nuked by sexy robots having an existential crisis.
Battlestar Galactica: humanity flees into space after being nuked by sexy robots having an existential crisis.
June 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Farscape: an astronaut becomes lost in space and finds the universe is filed with horny, psychotic Muppets.
Battlestar Galactica: humanity flees into space after being nuked by sexy robots having an existential crisis.
Battlestar Galactica: humanity flees into space after being nuked by sexy robots having an existential crisis.
My latest blog post:
Summarizing the science on EMF-induced injury and disease
Will your cell phone give you cancer?
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May 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My latest blog post:
I spent years (starting around 2015 for some reason) wondering why I was surrounded by such terrible people. I finally realized that “terrible” is the default setting. Decades ago we stopped working to morally form the populace. Societal disintegration was the only possible outcome.
May 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I spent years (starting around 2015 for some reason) wondering why I was surrounded by such terrible people. I finally realized that “terrible” is the default setting. Decades ago we stopped working to morally form the populace. Societal disintegration was the only possible outcome.
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christiantechjobs.io is an awesome resource. Any other places folk would recommend?
May 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
christiantechjobs.io is an awesome resource. Any other places folk would recommend?
My latest blog post
Christian interaction with marijuana
Or: how high a Church are we talking about?
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May 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My latest blog post
Well, as of last night I finally caught up on all the Star Trek from the last several years. (Except Discovery, which, just no.)
Picard was extremely (disgustingly) hit and miss writing, but season 3 was intravenous nostalgia.
Picard was extremely (disgustingly) hit and miss writing, but season 3 was intravenous nostalgia.
May 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Well, as of last night I finally caught up on all the Star Trek from the last several years. (Except Discovery, which, just no.)
Picard was extremely (disgustingly) hit and miss writing, but season 3 was intravenous nostalgia.
Picard was extremely (disgustingly) hit and miss writing, but season 3 was intravenous nostalgia.
Mem Rise is clearly superior to duolingo at teaching French if only because it teaches cursing MUCH earlier.
May 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Mem Rise is clearly superior to duolingo at teaching French if only because it teaches cursing MUCH earlier.
Having made some effort to organize my theological positions, I seem to be largely Orthodox except my ecclesiology is Anglican, my epistemology is rationalist and scientific, and my political theology is some unclear mix of anabaptist and liberation. I'd be Orthodox if not for the Orthodox Church.
May 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Having made some effort to organize my theological positions, I seem to be largely Orthodox except my ecclesiology is Anglican, my epistemology is rationalist and scientific, and my political theology is some unclear mix of anabaptist and liberation. I'd be Orthodox if not for the Orthodox Church.
By my count there are about a dozen bishops claiming apostolic succession with jurisdiction in some part of Nashville. So the important question is, who would win in a free for all to decide the one true Bishop of Nashville?
Episcopal Cage Match! Synodal Smackdown! The ecumenical council we need!
Episcopal Cage Match! Synodal Smackdown! The ecumenical council we need!
May 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
By my count there are about a dozen bishops claiming apostolic succession with jurisdiction in some part of Nashville. So the important question is, who would win in a free for all to decide the one true Bishop of Nashville?
Episcopal Cage Match! Synodal Smackdown! The ecumenical council we need!
Episcopal Cage Match! Synodal Smackdown! The ecumenical council we need!
Any time I stumble across the phrase God's “bowels of mercy” I have to wonder if they're near the deltoids of compassion or the abs of being kind.
Just me?
K.
Just me?
K.
May 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Any time I stumble across the phrase God's “bowels of mercy” I have to wonder if they're near the deltoids of compassion or the abs of being kind.
Just me?
K.
Just me?
K.
One of my favorite parenting moves has to be the digital picture frame.
For whatever quirk of my brain, I have no good memories of childhood. I had a good childhood, I was safe and loved and lacked nothing I needed. But the bad outweighed the good in my memory. I want better for my kids.
For whatever quirk of my brain, I have no good memories of childhood. I had a good childhood, I was safe and loved and lacked nothing I needed. But the bad outweighed the good in my memory. I want better for my kids.
May 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
One of my favorite parenting moves has to be the digital picture frame.
For whatever quirk of my brain, I have no good memories of childhood. I had a good childhood, I was safe and loved and lacked nothing I needed. But the bad outweighed the good in my memory. I want better for my kids.
For whatever quirk of my brain, I have no good memories of childhood. I had a good childhood, I was safe and loved and lacked nothing I needed. But the bad outweighed the good in my memory. I want better for my kids.
I've been using the same electric water kettle for years. I got a calibrated thermometer and it turns out that my kettle temperature settings are 20 degrees cooler than labeled.
My life is a lie.
My life is a lie.
May 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I've been using the same electric water kettle for years. I got a calibrated thermometer and it turns out that my kettle temperature settings are 20 degrees cooler than labeled.
My life is a lie.
My life is a lie.
I've concluded that there are just two kinds of people in the world. On one hand you have the people that can acknowledge error and change and become right. On the other hand you have those that cannot acknowledge error and so will stay wrong forever.
Everything begins with a spirit of repentance.
Everything begins with a spirit of repentance.
May 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I've concluded that there are just two kinds of people in the world. On one hand you have the people that can acknowledge error and change and become right. On the other hand you have those that cannot acknowledge error and so will stay wrong forever.
Everything begins with a spirit of repentance.
Everything begins with a spirit of repentance.