Agency in the Greek Language In my post, “On Divorce,” I briefly discussed how the biblical Greek language handles men and women differently when it came to certain moral actions. The cultural notions of agency are built right into the linguistic structure of the language. For example, in biblical Greek …
I write a lot about censorship. In the battle for freedom of speech, too many people who “fight” against censorship are perfectly willing to censor views they personally find objectionable. This moral inversion is on display in this Reddit group who, in an attempt to publish banned books (many of …
Yesterday, in “The Cancer of Political Bias“, I demonstrated how political activism leads to bias by placing the message over truth. The activist cannot comprehend that their own policies might be bad, let alone attribute the negative effects of those policies to the policies themselves. And so they mock their …
The Tweet above has proven to be quite influential as a meme. It humorously and effectively captures the notion of people voting for harmful political policies without ever expecting that they themselves would experience this. This is why, for example, people who say they oppose censorship are more than happy …
This is part of a series on partriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. Mnemonic Devices In English we have many linguistic structures that help us remember the content of a piece of writing, especially when it is read out loud. These mnemonic devices are literary devices include acronyms, rhyming, …
A Discerning Heart In “Learn to Discern” (2023-08-12), Gunner Q writes that he agrees with the following statement: “We must always refer to the Bible, but nothing is more difficult than interpreting it and applying it to a particular situation without falling into fundamentalism. God relies on our intelligence to …
This is part of a series on partriarchy, headship, authority, and submission. See this index. In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples. In doing so, he prays about sanctification in a rather curious way. “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the …
This is part of a series on partriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. When I wrote “The Context of Genesis 3:16”, I looked at how the context of Genesis 3:16 could be combined with that of Ephesians 5 and 1 Peter 3. Regarding the submission in Ephesians 5, I had …
In his two volume book, Escape the City, Travis Corcoran listed prices of various goods used in homesteading. Because he recorded the price, he was able to notice that these prices fluctuated much higher than the government published rate of inflation even in the months while he was writing the book. …
One of the political views that I find most frustrating is that America is full of greedy capitalists who—if they were destroyed by socialists and communists—would usher in a period of economic prosperity that no society has ever experienced. This is all a complete fabrication of reality. The reality is …