As another year draws to a close, it occurs to me that planning boils down in the end to a series of Yes and No answers to various and multitudinous questions.More
Tag Archives: Priorities
Andrew Tate’s Grandmother, Elon Musk and Ukraine, and ‘None Dare Call It Conspiracy’
Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 that we do indeed wrestle against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. And perhaps these are them.More
‘The Histories of Polybius,’ Watching ‘300’ with my Sons, and Mark O’Leary Gives Advice
Polybius being a Greek in Rome, his going to such lengths to chronicle the rise of Rome and the fall of the Greeks itself tells how important these things were to both peoples.More
The Means and Ends of Success and What It Profits a Man to Gain the Whole World
Answering what the goal of the podcast is, and how talking about my new desk or vasectomies relates, the admonition our Lord gives in the gospels is at the fore of my attentions.More
Concerning Ecumenism and the Post-War Consensus
The more I study both Church History and current trends, the more unusual, superficial, and disproportionate the ideal of Christian Unity as it’s been presented in my experience seems.More
Book Review: ‘Finding the Right Hills to Die On – The Case for Theological Triage’ by Gavin Ortlund
A recurring theme of Gavin Ortlund’s ‘Finding the Right Hills to Die On’ is the effect of doctrinal concerns. Not principally theological, but practical questions are asked here.More
Loving God With Everything You’ve Got, and Your Neighbor as Yourself
Given the importance of relationships to a happy, healthy, holy life, we do well to grapple with what to do when various relationships in life present competing claims.More
What the Declining Divorce Rate Belies
The divorce rate is going down because fewer young people are getting married to begin with. And those young people who are getting married are doing so a fair bit later in life.More
Peter Parker Struggles with Identity Crisis and Cancel Culture in ‘No Way Home’
A deep-dive into the nature of purpose and belonging and what it means to be human is here in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, particularly in its latest entry.More
Reviewing 2021 and Looking Forward to 2022
On the first day of the New Year, I finished copying notes on the year now past from Lauren’s and my Ink+Volt personal organizers. The finished Word document contains 11,008-words and is 29-pages long.More