Category Archives: creation

The Wizard of Ahhs

My incessant gasps were potent portents to my comparative illiteracy. I can’t contain them given the passion I feel for both wisdom and literary dexterity. The setting was my office as I work on a classical education curriculum project. We … Continue reading

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The God of Space and Time

We are all by nature Pelagians. Like the heretical monk Pelagius, we like to think in our hearts, even should our lips profess otherwise, that we are basically good. Help in fighting this temptation is one of the great blessings … Continue reading

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Ask RC- Are we God’s co-creators?

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Ask RC- Headcoverings? Forever Friend, Michael Branson

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The Year of Our Lord

The world is half full of glass half-empty thinkers, and I am one of them. Puddleglum is my patron saint. And nothing exposes the vast expanse of emptiness in the top half of the glass like listening to the evening … Continue reading

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How did you know that you wanted to be a writer?

My ideological awakenings did not happen in the order most would suspect. I was well taught the Reformed faith in my catechism class in junior high school, working through GI Williamson’s Shorter Catechism for Study Groups. Though I had, of … Continue reading

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It May Not Be About Me

It’s one of my favorite lines, not just because of how funny it is, but how true. “I’ve talked long enough about me… how about you talk about me for a while?” We are all, I suspect, our own favorite … Continue reading

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The Unbearable Immutability of Being

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Festivus From the Best of Us

One would need to be a Scrooge indeed to begrudge those who deny Jesus the happiness they enjoy on the occasion of the celebration of His birth. Jesus is for those who rest in Him, but He has indeed blessed … Continue reading

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Why did God destroy Sodom?

There are, in our day, two principle competing views on how to answer this question. Because we live in a world where those committing sexual perversion have become a protected class, certain circles of the church have rushed to accommodate … Continue reading

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