Essays
Scripture & Story
The Dogma Is the Drama
Dorothy L. Sayers argued that orthodox Christian doctrine is not the enemy of compelling drama — it is the only foundation on which compelling drama can be built. Forty years after her death, she is still right, and we are still not listening.
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Scripture & StoryIn the Beginning Was the Story: Genesis and the Narrative Shape of Reality
Before there was argument, there was story. Genesis does not begin with a proposition — it begins with a scene. What that means for how we read everything that follows.
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The TraditionChesterton's Paradox: Orthodoxy as the Most Dangerous Idea
The man who argued that Christianity was not too wild but too tame for the modern world — and why he was exactly right about which direction the danger runs.
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ApologeticsThe Gospel Is Not Borrowed Language
Jesus did not co-opt Roman imperial vocabulary for his own purposes. He reclaimed what was always God's. The difference is not semantic — it is everything.
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Scripture & StoryPsalm 22 and the Cry from the Cross
The most desolate line in all of Scripture — and why it is also the most theologically dense. What it means that Jesus quoted it from the cross.
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Culture & WorldviewBorrowed Authority: When Theological Language Is Used Without Theological Belief
What happens when the culture reaches for the vocabulary of Scripture without its convictions — and why that borrowing always costs more than the borrower expects.
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