Author Archives: Matt

About Matt

Software engineer by trade; lay theologian by nature; Lutheran by grace.

Can Government Be Religiously Neutral?

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Matt

I take on that question in a new piece at The Federalist today: The First Amendment forbids the establishment of a state church in the United States, but it in no way imposes the incoherent burden of religious neutrality on our civic … Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Nationalism, Culture, Natural Law, Politics, Tradition | 5 Comments

Embarrassed by Christ

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Matt

Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me. -Matt 25:40 “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward … Continue reading →

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Desperately Seeking Feminism in the Bible

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Matt

Sometimes, if you let a room get messy enough, it’s hard to know where to even begin cleaning it up. When the enormity of the disarray is such that you can see no clear path from start to finish, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, Gospel, Heresy, Natural Law, Paganism, The Modern Church, Theology | 2 Comments

The Obsolescence of Racism

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Matt

My high school days are far enough in the past that they still assigned Shakespeare to students back then. I read Romeo & Juliet freshman year, and remember laughing with my friends about the whole “do you bite your thumb … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Politics | 2 Comments

Ending the Equality Lie

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Matt

It seems that the US women’s soccer team has been making a big stink about the wage gap because they make less the men’s team–as though men’s soccer doesn’t generate an order of magnitude more revenue than women’s. As I’ve … Continue reading →

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Reparations Enslave the Insufficiently Intersectional

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Matt

There are lots of problems with reparations for slavery. There’s little justice to be found in punishing the descendants of slave-holders and rewarding the descendants of slaves 150 years after the fact. The fact that race is always the proposed … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Politics | 2 Comments

Disgusting Things Ought to Disgust Us

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Matt

About a year ago, I came across a rather nasty news story about a house in Iowa. Neighbors were complaining about the smell and eventually the police were called to investigate. As it turns out, there were dozens of cats … Continue reading →

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The Violinist Lives

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Matt

It takes a special kind of person to go all-in on supporting abortion even after recognizing it as deliberately killing an innocent human being. I’ve recently seen one such example passed around Twitter like a bad case of herpes. In … Continue reading →

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Loving Our Enemies Does Not Excuse Us from Loving Our Friends

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Matt

You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father … Continue reading →

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St. Augustine on Calling Evil Good and Good Evil

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Matt

Woe to those that call evil good, and good evil! The Lord’s warning given through Isaiah is surely apropos for our own time, given the cultural and spiritual forces which confront Christians in the West. I was recently reminded of … Continue reading →

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