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    • 2021
      • The importance of Hesed (חֶסֶד)
      • Complete Atonement, Briefly
      • Omniscience: by nature and decree
      • On Theonomy
      • Passing judgement: why context is king
      • Christ is Lord of the Dictionary
      • The Hypostatic Union, Gnosticism and Christian Hedonism
      • The sacrament of vaccination
      • The Lobster King, and the hierarchy of value among narratives
      • Proximate causes and the Deistic error
      • Feasting on flesh by faith
      • The spider’s web and Dead Orthodoxy
      • Dunking, splashing and the New Covenant
      • “Help! My church is on fire!”
      • Imprecatory Psalms and Planetboom
      • The Art and Soul of Education
      • Once Saved Always Saved: Because God is faithful
      • The shifting goalposts of a poorly-written story
      • The trees belong to the church
      • Graveyard evangelism
      • Thank God you’re here! The life-giving blessings of Ordinary Providence
      • Chronological snobbery and facts about leather
      • Autumn leaves, Pentecost and the dexterity of the human mouth for speech
      • The Catholic who sacked the Priesthood in New South Wales
      • The upcoming battle for history yet unwritten
      • Knocking on doors and assuming the centre
      • The next few millennia of the End Times, and a comparison to the Quadrennial phenomenon of Olympic expertise
      • I’m the problem
      • Pursuing prophecy like the Old Prophets
      • So you think you’re a Protestant?
      • Some basic and practical axioms for adopting and cultivating a Christian worldview
      • The parts of the Bible they deleted (and other nonsense claims)
      • The Greek Diphthong that made Santa punch a heretic
    • 2022
      • Let us adore him
      • The Counter-Reformational venom of Middle Knowledge, and the place of logic in Biblical Theology
      • That elusive distinction between babies and bathwater
      • A quick dive into a truly rigged election
      • A delayed thought on time
      • Redeeming Wabi-Sabi: a Christian extraction of a Japanese and Buddhist philosophy
      • Three approaches to Holiness, and the good news of good art
      • It’s not you, it’s me: the foul smell of ‘choice meats’
      • Trent: the confirmation of Rome’s apostasy
      • The people that ruined Apostolic Succession
      • The arson we cannot see from behind a black mirror
      • Rejoice! The son rises for restoration and all creation gives cheer!
      • The elephant in the womb: rowing and wading through seas of bad argumentation
      • The only difference between a drunkard and an alcoholic
      • Between the blind man and the witch
      • Matt Walsh, and the problem of the trash compactor
      • Myths, monsters and magic
      • Long live the King
      • Clothing is communication
      • Faith is not the grounds of salvation
      • So, what are those Protestants Protesting about?
      • Chains shall he break
    • 2023
      • New Heart Theology: the great freedom of a good heart
      • That only one murder is possible: an examination of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Kinoko Nasu
      • Love, hate and blasphemy laws
      • Easter
      • Sex dolls and The Mandalorian
      • “Barbie”, or the ateleological creation of Eve
      • a fortiori: a fortress of comfort
      • Halloween exhortation: semper reformanda
      • Praise the poor boy, praise the king
    • 2024
      • To want, and not to will? that is the question
      • Discussing Israel and Gaza: Boundary markers and warning signs
      • Our stolen generation
      • Chesterton, Shirley, Crewe and the enchanted world
  • Short Stories
    • Invaluable – Short Story Cycle
    • The night walk
    • Welcomed to Saigon
    • New memories
    • A trenchcoat, a lighter and cold-blooded murder.
    • Aftermath – flash fiction
    • The parable of the Library
    • Microfiction: Farsight III
  • Poetry
    • Scars of the fall
    • Poem for Chopin
    • Of praise
    • Triangles
    • Phileos
    • Dusk
    • Of the seasons
    • Thirteen ways of beholding the Cross
    • The 6:30 News
    • A cloudless lagoon
  • The Light of the Law
    • The light of the law: Aleph
    • The light of the law: Beth
    • The light of the law: Gimel
    • The Light of the Law: Pe
    • The Light of the Law: Tav
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