“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.”

Domain Query: Hinduism as power play

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...

Atheism is boring

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...

Evil and cowardice

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...

Five minutes a day

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...

The broken tools

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...

The Forever War

In most civilised nations, eighteen years is the span of time required for a child to go from a squalling wailing helpless little blob, through to the wobbly walking and falling over stage, up to actual controlled movement and motion, onward into having a real...

The utter folly of scientific materialism

Of late I have found myself feeding a long-dormant interest in some of the more knotty and difficult questions about the origin of life and its evolution. This was sparked by watching those videos from a few weeks back involving Dr. David Berlinski, a mathematician...

Death and glory

The greatest living Grandmaster of science fiction and fantasy, John C. Wright, responded to a reader of his blog and his work on the subject of whether or not the Kingdom of Christ Jesus has, indeed, been defeated and destroyed by the Godless Left: I have been...