Category Archives: Musings

Schools Can’t Be Religiously Neutral Either

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Matt

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. -Attributed to Martin Luther Whenever American Christians complain about … Continue reading →

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A Few Thoughts on Bodily Presence

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Matt

One of the big difficulties when it comes to disagreements between Lutherans and Reformed is that we don’t always agree on what our disagreements are. Take the presence of Christ in the Lord’s Supper. This is a generalization, but the … Continue reading →

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Answering Objections About Marriage as Higher Calling

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Matt

I forgot to post it on the blog, but I had a new piece up on The Federalist last week.  It’s a critique of an article by Kylee Zempel in which she argues that Christians today are idolizing marriage.  My … Continue reading →

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A Self-Imposed Poverty of Identity

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Matt

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to identity lately–specifically because of the way America and other Western nations are shattering into a million different special interest groups. Multiculturalism is part of that, of course, but it’s hardly the whole problem. … Continue reading →

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Part 2 of Between Babel & Pentecost: A Christian Analysis of Multiculturalism

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Matt

The 2nd installment of the series is up. There’s no shortage of conflict between Christianity and Enlightenment philosophy, but the Bible story that drives a stake through modernism’s heart is the Tower of Babel.  

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#BelieveSomeWomen

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Matt

This past weekend, an old friend of mine (to whom I have not spoken for awhile) revealed on Facebook that she had been the victim of an attempted sexual assault when she was a teenager. She did so as a … Continue reading →

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Conspiracies & Paradigms

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Matt

I love conspiracy theories. That’s not to say I don’t take them with Jimmy Buffet’s lost shaker of salt; but any good conspiracy theory is, at the very least, a fun bit of alternate history. My favorites are the ones … Continue reading →

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Entitlement, Responsibility, and Authority – A Thought Experiment

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Matt

Entitlement, responsibility, and authority—these three facets of personal relationships must always exist in conjunction with one another. If you try to add or remove one, then you will inevitably add or remove all three. Likewise, if you try to corrupt … Continue reading →

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