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Mar 9, 2025: Christian interaction with marijuana The below is based on a presentation I gave at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church.I spend a lot of time on Reddit, various Christian subreddits, …
Nov 1, 2024: Summarizing the science on EMF-induced injury and disease I’m an electrical engineer, and I often hear people who are otherwise pretty science-oriented express concern about injuries and disease being …
Oct 31, 2024: Ecclesiastes as an angry rant I’m contemplating the book of Ecclesiastes, which has this one word in it often translated vanity or meaningless or futility. I’m thinking …
Oct 29, 2024: Hopepunk: examples and extensions I just became aware of a new fiction genre: hopepunk. Hopepunk in speculative fiction explores resistance, rebellion, and resilience as counters to …
Oct 17, 2024: The? Unforgiveable? 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 …
Oct 7, 2024: Sermon on the Mount: fractal structure and meaning The Sermon on the Mount is often considered the core of Jesus’s teachings. But if you just read the sermon beginning to end, it comes across …
Oct 5, 2024: Virtue ethics Let’s talk about ethics. I’m not any sort of expert, but the great Dr. Anagonye once explained that there are three kinds of ethical …
Oct 4, 2024: Where did all these demons come from? Another question about demons interests me that I’ve never seen addressed: where did they come from, anyhow? Read through the whole Old …
Oct 1, 2024: Spirit of Python I’m a fan of the late Dr. Michael Heiser. If you want to spend four hours listening to an exquisite exposition comparing the early and late …
Oct 1, 2024: Romans 13 and the presumed justice of civil authority How Christians should interact with civil government is a deep topic, which I don’t plan to comprehensively address here. But I do want to talk …
Oct 1, 2024: Salt as fertilizer Jesus tells his audience for the Sermon on the Mount that they are the “salt of the earth.” What, exactly, does that mean? I thought I …
Sep 30, 2024: The Antitheses In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gives the six antitheses. “You have heard it said X, but I say to you Y.” I suggest that these six are …
Sep 30, 2024: Inheriting the Kingdom of God I like thinking about how Jesus would have been understood by his Jewish audience. For today’s example, let’s look at two parables: the …