The Tyranny of Enlightened Freedom
Dostoevsky vs the World by John Heers, First Things Foundation Freedom is a hard thing. It can be confusing. It is essential to the understanding of both law and love. It presents itself as both a means to an end…
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The Old Temple Versus The New Temple
by Pastor Andrew Isker Introduction Can you think of the boldest stand you have ever taken in your life? A time when you knew you were right, where you stood publicly for something true and just and everyone else around…
Divining the Dream Machine: Part 3
Science-Fiction, Hollywood, and the Technology of Antichrist by Thomas Millary Weston’s Evolving Worldview The worldview of sci-fi has spilled out from fiction into pop-intellectualism from the beginning. Father of the genre HG Wells was also a social critic, whose books…
Divining the Dream Machine: Part 2
Science-Fiction, Hollywood, and the Technology of Antichrist by Thomas Millary “The Art of Dreaming” After decades of obsession with movies and pop-culture, Jasun Horsley realized that Hollywood is hell. His book “16 Maps of Hell: The Unraveling of Hollywood Superculture”…
What Is Capitalism?
The Binding New World Ligament by John Heers, First Things Foundation Most people in the world accept the idea that capitalism is an economic system. For most people capitalism is a thing you use, a system in which you participate…
Israel’s Second Chance
by Pastor Andrew Isker Introduction In each of the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), as Jesus preached against the wicked and perverse generation in Israel, He made a statement that has puzzled many Christians even to this day. “Blasphemy…
Mythologizing Modernity
The cosmic tale goes ever on by The Saxon Cross History is dead. Or, so I was told. For a long time, I believed it. Not because I wanted to, but I could see the world around me. It was…
Re-Considering Doug Wilson’s “Covenant with Hagar” Part 2
by Gabe Harder Defining the Covenant To this point, it should be clear that the “covenant with Hagar” is key to Wilson’s brand of soft supersessionism. What’s equally clear, however, is that this particular covenantal arrangement evades precise definition, and…
Re-Considering Doug Wilson’s “Covenant with Hagar” Part 1
by Gabe Harder Introduction Doug Wilson’s “American Milk and Honey” is now available. There’s a great deal in the book worth commenting on, and I anticipate engaging with that material more broadly in the near future. In the lead-up to…
Ireland’s Quest for Identity
Alienism, Violence, and Power. by The Prudentialist Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald said that the stabbing that occurred in Dublin is “just a shocking, unexpected, random incident” as protests and fires were started in reaction to an Algerian Migrant…
Pentecost Was The Greater Crossing of the Jordan
The Christian Story Takes Israel’s History and Fulfills It by Pastor Andrew Isker Introduction The Day of Pentecost is one of the greatest events in the entire Bible. There is a reason that the church throughout the world has celebrated…
Divining the Dream Machine: Part 1
Science-Fiction, Hollywood, and the Technology of Antichrist by Thomas Millary Sci-Fi and False Signs In his seminal work, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, Fr. Seraphim Rose condemned “the spirit of science fiction.”1 His critique of that literary genre…