Peak Calvinist evangelism. We will study this interaction for centuries: Rogan: "[God's] calling me? How...on the phone?" Chadd: *with a twinkle in his eye* "...I'm wonderin' if you're one of the Almighty's elect. And if ya are, you better hold on to your britches, son!"

Creativity and fluency in planning an outline is the most important part of writing an essay. The rest is producing prose – which is also a significant skill – but to my mind being able elaborate an outline in response to a question is the core humanities achievement.

"When we teach that justification is promised by faith alone apart from works, we hear constant cries that we are condemning good works, making the law useless, opening the door to a loose and careless life, and destroying all moral discipline. This is actually a good sign that

“a university will have ceased to exist when its learning has degenerated into what is now called research” A profound indictment of modern education.

she's making the argument for why embryo selection should ultimately be mandatory. what if you could have stopped it? aren't you morally obligated to prevent this harm?

The formula that God is the identity of essence and existence (derives from Avicenna, and transmitted through St. Thomas Aquinas), means, not that God is existence (ontotheology), but rather and only that it is of the essence of God to exist.

The fundamental problem with IVF is that is removes conception from the matrix of human love. It's all reproduction and no procreation. It's a small step from there to thinking of human life as a *product* that can be discarded (or frozen in perpetuity).

Evil is self-defeating (Christopher Ash) “Take it to heart, be very sure of it and believe it;…there is no one who does evil without first of all doing mischief to himself.”—Augustine, Psalms 2:53

🧵 This discussion between Lehmann and Feser is really good.

Lucia Marie Sanduleac arrived last week. Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

Taking the swiping UI that made men and women hate each other on dating apps and now bringing it to parents and children.

You get 18 summers. Then they're visiting. You get 940 weekends. Then they have their own. You get 6,570 bedtimes. Then silence. Time is the only real currency of parenthood. Spend it wisely. You can't earn more.

Alan Jacobs' word to his students about "AI" is magnificent. A few thoughts: 1. The social pressure to cheat might be increased, but it's not that different than it was before. Plagiarism *always* begins every semester in the fifth week of term, when students get busy, tired,

Notice how the state is in some worse category than the rest of society, outside the reach of grace, because it is coercive. Sounds awfully similar to a particular camp the magisterial Reformers were worried about.

"Abortion destroys health and deprives you of happiness". Soviet poster, 1965.

Good morning, fellow retrievers. Did you know that, in instructing us how to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” WLC 191 instructs us to pray not only that the church would be “countenanced and maintained by the civil magistrate” but also that “the Jews” would be “called”?

"Magnanimity is the male equivalent to feminine beauty." - Scott R. Swain A much better paradigm than reducing everything to authority/submission. youtube.com/watch?v=gYOzOt…

Francis Schaeffer in 1969, Death in the City

Short review of Geerardus Vos biography, by Danny E. Olinger paulsanduleac.micro.blog/2025/08/24/gee…

Preaching on the Abraham narratives this fall. I like Vos just as much as the next guy, but this attempt in his BT volume to psychoanalyze the Shemites... is something. Very 19th century.