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September 2026

September 04, 2026

Luther vs. Kuyper on Christianity & Culture

Both Luther and Kuyper agree that Christ is Lord over all things. A Kuyperian approach...

September 03, 2026

Christians Who Don’t Go to Church

Some Christians don't go to church. Even Abraham Kuyper developed the habit of writing Biblical...

September 02, 2026

AI Winters

AI has a long history, one characterized by a recurring pattern known as the "AI...

September 01, 2026

Moravec’s Paradox

Moravec's paradox: What is hard for humans is easy for machines. But what is easy...

August 2026

August 31, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 8/31/26

The Right to Worship Act. Gay Republicans drop the "T" in LGBT. And Trump's approval...

August 28, 2026

The Significance of Sunday

"O Day of Rest and Gladness" by Christopher Wordsworth (whose uncle was the great poet...

August 27, 2026

How Not Establishing Religion Helped Churches Thrive

The USA is more religious than nations that had a state church. One reason, argues...

August 26, 2026

The Significance of Playing a Game

To play a game, says a philosopher, "is to voluntarily take on unnecessary obstacles to make...

August 25, 2026

The New Sacrament

A worship conference recently discussed "whether worship music has become a new sacrament." It is...

August 24, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 8/24/26

Canada's military chaplains can't publicly mention God. Meta could be sued out of existence. And...

August 21, 2026

Back to School with AI

A news story quoting university students talking about the use of AI in their high...

August 20, 2026

A Way to Solve the Population Problem

Policies to address the imminent population implosion keep being too expensive and ineffective. But Lyman...

August 19, 2026

Charles Finney’s Reinvention of Worship

Charles Finney was far from being an orthodox Christian, but his legalistic theology and his...

August 18, 2026

God’s Consolation of Job in the Whirlwind

When God appears in a whirlwind to Job, this is not just God's smackdown of...

August 17, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 8/17/26

Doesn't "pro-choice" apply to surrogate mothers? The DSA would presumably replace prisons with gulags. And...

August 14, 2026

How to Detect AI-Written Fiction

There are marked differences between fiction written by AI and fiction written by human beings....

August 13, 2026

Labeling AI

One attempt to defend human beings against AI intrusions is requiring that AI-generated material be...

August 12, 2026

The Pope Underestimates AI

My review of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, "Magnifica humanitas," which neglects AI's most...

August 11, 2026

Learning from the Catholics’ Worship Wars

A Substack article frames the Catholic worship war in a way that sheds light on...

August 10, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 8/10/26

Marijuana passes alcohol and cigarettes in daily use. Changing the voting age to 16. Pell...

August 07, 2026

Why Social Science Is Not a Science

A major study of the quality of scientific research found that only 49% of the...

August 06, 2026

Liquidating Sociology

Sociology has gone all in on woke ideology, abandoning objectivity and the pursuit of knowledge...

August 05, 2026

The Sacred as a Category Beyond Religion

Religion has to do with the realm of the sacred. But the sense that some...

August 04, 2026

An Odyssey without the Good Parts

Now that I have seen Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, I am greatly disappointed. Not so much...

August 03, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 8/3/26

Socialism from the right. Two previously unknown sermons by St. Augustine discovered. And clean air...

July 2026

July 31, 2026

An Inside Look at the Democratic Socialists of America

Jake Altman used to be a member of the Democratic Socialists of America from the...

July 30, 2026

Yes, the Democratic Socialists Really Are Communists

The Democratic Socialists of America have released a new platform. And the organization is quite...

July 29, 2026

The Economic Obstacles to the AI Revolution

There are some very practical, tangible, immediate economic obstacles to the AI revolution: Huge investments...

July 28, 2026

Obstacles to the AI Revolution

The AI revolution is being billed as inevitable. But the AI industry is coming up...

July 27, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 7/27/26

Back to war. Socialist candidates are now more popular than MAGA candidates. And Ray Keating,...