PODCAST: Cantus Firmus At the Movies Ep. 1 – Sin City (w/ Nick Quient)
Posted onThe first episode in a new series on theological and philosophical analysis of films looks at Sin City (2005)–the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s comic […]
Category: Social Issues
PODCAST: Sean Spicer and The Stranger
Posted onAudio Download: http://www.cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20170313-SeanSpicerandtheStranger.mp3
PODCAST: Make Christianity Weak Again – Toward a Biblical Worldview of Political Involvement
Posted onI examine biblical data on the origin and purpose of government and contrast it with the traditional right and left wing outlooks as classically formulated […]
Erasmus on the “Problem of the Turk”
Posted onI recently came across a small treatise by the 16th century Christian humanist Desiderius Erasmus–the same Erasmus who gave us the Textus Receptus (the New […]
AUDIO: My interview on Ordinary Folk podcast
Posted onI was recently interviewed on the Ordinary Folk podcast. We talked about theology, politics, the relationship between church and state, and superheroes. Click the image […]
How Shall We Then Vote?
Posted onThere seem to be two basic attitudes in the church in regard to the question of how Christians should vote. The first is that politics […]
Michael Sattler: Radical Christian
Posted onThough Protestants have in more recent years come around to the principle of separation of church and state, this was not so in the beginning. […]
The Medium is the Massage: on the Temptation to Replace People with Technology
Posted onSherry Turkle is distraught. The more this MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology looks at the world around her, the more […]
The Syrian Refugee and the Good Samaritan
Posted onA recent article about John Kasich, the governor of my home state of Ohio, noted his opposition to providing asylum to Syrian refugees. Kasich’s reasoning […]
I looked, and behold! a spray tan horse (or, how the loss of literacy could spell the end for western civilization)
Posted onWhen Kim Kardashian tweeted, “Today marks the 100 year anniversary of Armenian Genocide!” as if she were giving a birth announcement, it predictably elicited some […]