New paper for your reading pleasure

My penultimate paper for this semester has been completed. It is a meditation on themes in Martin Heidegger’s essay “The Question Concerning Technology” and Hannah Arendt’s book The Human Condition. As it is rather long (7400 words or so), I’ve put it on a separate page. You can get to it by clicking below.
“THAT WHICH [...]

The sphere of political power is temporal

The spiritual destiny of man in the Christian sense cannot be represented on earth by the power organization of a political society; it can be represented only by the church. The sphere of power is radically de-divinized; it has become temporal. The double representation of man in society through church and empire lasted through the [...]

Trials show God’s love for us

Trials are designed by God for our good. They are custom-fitted for each of us, made with great care and thoughtfulness to help uncover the enemy within and purify our hearts to create a dwelling-place for the Spirit. “The Lord disciplines the one He loves.” Trials show God’s great knowledge of us–for how else could [...]

McCain and Burke’s Conservatism

The Atlantic recently ran an article comparing the political approach of future president John McCain to the conservatism of British political sage Edmund Burke.
For those who are unfamiliar with him, Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish member of the House of Commons, best known for his grave and impassioned criticism of the French Revolution. He was [...]

Hide Away in the Love of Jesus

Come weary saints, though tired and weak
Hide away in the love of Jesus
Your strength will return by His quiet streams
Hide away in the love of Jesus
Come wand’ring souls, and find your home
Hide away in the love of Jesus
He offers the rest that you yearn to know
Hide away in the love of Jesus
Hear Him calling your [...]

Favorite books of the semester

My favorite book I’ve read this semester has got to be Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition.
Next up would be Friedrich V. Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty. This is research for a paper, but I’ve really enjoyed it. So far, I have eleven pages of quotes from the book. Here’s a few good ones.
“While the [...]

On the California homeschooling case

All hype aside, it appears that the court is stating blankly that according to California law, minor children must be enrolled in school, and homeschooling is not an option. To quote the opinion:
It is clear to us that enrollment and attendance in a public full-time day school is required by California law for minor children [...]

Do progressives care more about women, or people who think they’re women?

Thanks to County Councilmember Duchy Trachtenberg and the unanimous vote of our County Council, my county now has a law that will go into effect soon, allowing transgendered males to use any women’s restroom facilities that are open to the public. So a man with alternate “gender identity” can use the women’s locker room at [...]

Political do-goodism is no good.

It is much easier to cast a vote in support of a politician who promises to help the poor, than to take your own time and money to help them. Buying promises of political action may ease your conscience, but it will not really help the plight of the poor. If you really want to [...]

Take but degree away…

Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores
And make a sop of all this solid globe:
Strength should be lord of imbecility,
And the rude son should strike his father dead:
Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,
Between [...]