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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...
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Did Peter Believe Jesus Was God?
For better or worse, a few years back I signed up to Quora and on occasion their emails pique my interest; usually, however, I find...
C. H. Dodd and the Decline of Corporate Worship
In the course of my undergraduate studies I was introduced to the very refreshing New Testament scholar, C. H. Dodd. Since then I’ve collected and...
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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...
No More Fridays With Fred? No More Friedrich Nietzsche?
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to present a talk on Friedrich Nietzsche at KRUX, a Christian Study Centre out in Stellenbosch that “disciples young adults through theological education,...
Reflections on Fatherhood From 'The Road'
After reading a passage from The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, in a sermon, someone came up to me afterwards and said, ‘I couldn’t put that book down.’ But before you...
Three Propositions About Sin From 1 John
In 1 John 2:1, the apostle outlines one of the purposes behind writing his epistle. “I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.” There are,...
Does Reformed Theology Discourage Personal Holiness?
Over my summer break I reread Francis Schaeffer’s refreshing introduction to the Christian faith: True Spirituality. As a brief aside, it’s to our own detriment when we abandon these classic,...
