“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
A very happy Christmas to all of you, my brothers, for the few hours that are left of the day anyway. As promised, here is my podcast for Christmas Day, in which I discuss a series of connected ideas about my understanding of the importance of Christmas, the nature of...
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. — Isaiah 9:6, English Standard Version It is Christmas at...
A few days ago I answered a question from reader JohnC about certain troubles brewing in India, related to the passage of what is known there as the “Citizenship Amendment Bill”. And make no mistake, there have been some serious troubles; massive...
Reader JohnC had an interesting question for me from the Mondaydact Browser Crash for this week: Hey Didact, what are your thoughts on the Indian bill on citizenship? No Muslim can apply. The article that he references in his question can be found here, and I’m...
Apparently the small-screen adaptation of famous atheist Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series is pretty unwatchable, because absolutely nothing happens of any consequence to anybody: HBO’s latest fantasy offering is an adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s...
I realise that I am a few days late to this hilarious dogpile onto The Jeff Bezos Blog – er, I mean, The Washington Compost – because of the way that they completely screwed up the obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But it’s never too late...
Reader JohnC911 – I believe this is the same reader who runs the JJ Podcast, on which I appeared a few weeks ago – asked a question related to the spread of Christianity in India that is worth answering in some detail: In your experience you think their...
The Plains of Heaven by John Martin Longtime reader and friend of the blog Kapios wrote in to my post about how the Lord uses broken tools to do His work with an interesting series of questions: Could it be that sin must absolutely exist for humans to be content?...
There are many things that each of us have established as part of our daily routines. You wake up at a certain time every day. You brush your teeth, shave, shower, drink coffee (or tea), eat breakfast, get in your car, go to work, come home, watch TV, read a book, go...
Original painting by John McNaughton Normally I would just post up some Scripture and leave things there, but two heavy questions have been pressing on my mind for some time now and I wish to take some moments to address them. The first concerns a rather knotty and...
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