The Rhetorically Hollow Objections against Court Packing
There is an interesting phenomenon in the media where the current republican’s attempt to confirm another Supreme Court judge is being labelled as “court packing” and the epithet of “court…
On the Compatibility of Open Theism, Indeterminism, and Unconditional Election
Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor? – Romans 9:21 Distinguishing the…
377A, Fornication, Adultery and the Alleged “Secular State” of Singapore
Many relevant and interesting points have been raised in the 377A debate concerning our law criminalising male homosexual acts. However I wish on this post to focus on two specific…
The Narrative of Endurance versus the Narrative of Progression
Culture Flows Downstream from Politics One of the curious thing about Japan is that while it presents a unique homogenous cultural front, the fact is that many of its more…
What is the Nature of Governance? Problem Solving vs. Expression of Principles/Values
Ad Hoc Governance vs. Expressive Governance In this post I shall make a distinction between two “styles” or conception of governance. One I shall call the “ad hoc” style and…
The Impossibility of Regaining Salvation; Perseverance of the “Saints” or “Elect” and the Nature of Assurance
There is nothing here to teach that a man can be saved, then lost, then saved again. Such a thing is taught nowhere in the Scriptures. There is only one…
The Double Figure of the Eucharist; Eating Christ’s Flesh by Participating in the Fellowship of Christ
Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?…
Present at the Event; Thomas Cranmer’s Lord Supper as a Figure of our Redemption
THE Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another; but rather is a Sacrament of our…
Campaigning on Behalf of the Orcs; On the Prudential Nature of Voting
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. -A quote attributed to Albert Camus, but I can’t find the source Orcs for the…
What Aquinas Means by Infallibility; Ontological versus Epistemic Infallibility
There is a passage from the Summa which is frequently appealed to by Roman apologists which goes: Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in…