What happens to godly self-control if someone who claims authority actually is superseding control over us which we should be exercising over ourselves?More
Category Archives: Philosophy
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Goodness must align with the truth, and goodness is beautiful. Similarly, some hint at least of truth and goodness is inherent to that which we call objectively beautiful.More
Plans Are Useless, but Planning is Indispensable
To the end of clarifying what God’s Word says about plans and planning, it seemed good to me to delve into what Psalms and Proverbs in particular have to say on the subject.More
Book Review: Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg
Gregg covers two critically important subjects here: the relationship between rationality and religious belief for one, and the legacy and destiny of the West for another.More
Book Review: ‘A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful’ by Edmund Burke
Burke bids us stop and smell the roses here, and appreciate their thorns, then see the illiberality of the other sciences moderated with a fuller and more soulful humanity.More
Book Review: ‘Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered’ by Russell Kirk
Arguing for ordered liberty, Burke understood that human freedom cannot be unlimited and abstract. It has to be tempered with reasonable restraint in order to live to a fruitful end.More
Christian Liberty Defined and Contrasted
Christian liberty is the opposite of slavery to sin, which leads to death. Freedom is the freedom to obey God, including both knowing the truth and being set free by the truth. More
Book Review: ‘How Should We Then Live’ by Francis A. Schaeffer
Here Schaeffer tells us the story of how our beliefs about God and ourselves have influenced the kind of art we enjoy, how we organize ourselves, and how we govern and are governed in turn.More
Flying Dinosaurs and What Counts As Imposing
The kinds of comments left thus far on the last episode are the whole of atheism – condescending, and ridiculing and oversimplifications, strawmen, and aspersions.More
Preparing Our Children to Defend Against Atheism
There are two kinds of atheism. The first scientific, the latter moral. Both kinds share a common thread, man sitting in judgment over whether God is in the right.More