Introduction: So here is what happened—in case you are not up to speed. My friend Brooks Potteiger was on a podcast with Joshua Haymes and the topic of James Talarico, a death angel from Texas, ...
The Talarician Jesus Juke
The Arguments of Job
Introduction: If you are anything like me, you may have wondered from time to time about the precise nature of the argument between Job and his three friends. Everyone in the book speaks a lot ...
Dabbing Won’t Do
“More than one person has gone off to Hell dabbing at their sins, and sometimes picking at them. Repentance, real repentance, goes right to the heart of everything.”
Letters Approaching the End of March
Letter to the Editor: My job is cybersecurity. I talk about AI threats to companies almost every day. This one tops them all. Gurk is right. How do we do a Butlerian Jihad or a Terminator ...
Emotions in Conflict
Emotions in Conflict
“After all, who does not know of someone who considers himself to be a total waste of skin, and yet is angry with others for not dropping everything on his behalf.”
AI-dolatry
“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel ...
Real Ambition
Introduction: In order to address the subject of ambition rightly, we have to remember some other things first. There is a certain kind of desire that every human being has to deal with, and this is ...
Unjust and Just
“You look at the cross and you see an unjust condemnation. But when you step into the cross by faith, what happens? Now it is a just condemnation. I have been crucified with Christ, Paul says (Gal. 2:20). The cross was unjust because Jesus was on it, but it is entirely just because I am there too. Oh, the wisdom of God!”
Incentivize What You Want
A Package Deal
“The whole world runs on accusation, so friendship with the world is friendship with that system of accusation.”