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Doodle: Misleading Eschatologies
Having recently come up on three occasions while lecturing, I feel fairly comfortable to say that the Lord has laid the matter of eschatology on...
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Doodle: Friedrich Nietzsche's Capitalist Manifesto
I’m no economist. Nor am I the son of economist. Neither are my father or I are socialists. I’ve read the Communist Manifesto but growing...
How to Become a Better Reader
Last week Gavin Ortlund released a superb video on how to become better readers, with five strategies for reading more. Crucially he starts by saying,...
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Fridays with Fred: Between Contemplation and Contempt
My very first Nietzsche reflection was on a line from Human, All Too Human: “One hears a lot of talk about men, but none at all about man” (§35). As...
Christian Forgiveness: Unlimited and Unconditional
My wife and I were joking recently about whether we should forgive a minor infraction committed by a close friend. Suddenly, seriousness overtook her and she told me, “We must...
Doodle: Roman Catholics and Martin Luther
Writing over two millennia ago, in his Defence of Socrates, Plato warned against the unqualified opinions of celebrities. “Because of their excellence at their own trade,” writes Plato, “each claimed...
Donna Tartt: Beautiful Windows Into the Transcendent
A few years back I developed a passage from Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club arguing that, despite making us feel as if we’re the centre of attention, social media does little...
Christian, Look To and Learn From Older Saints
The shortfalls of chronological snobbery are well documented, perhaps most famously by C. S. Lewis and therefore unsurprisingly by the late Timothy Keller. Both men routinely called their peers out...
Satan and Senate: Do Global Powers Serve the Devil's Ends?
Following some kind of algorithm shuffle on Facebook, a few weeks back I started seeing videos and images that I would class as conspiracy theories. You can pick your poison—from...
1 John: Christian, It's "If" You Sin, Not 'When'
“I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1...
The Second World War Never Happened: A Satire
If you grew up in South Africa, then there’s a good chance you were indoctrinated—just like I was. Sitting through history class in the early 2000s it never occurred to...