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The Third Discourseman Who were ‘The Four Discoursemen’?  To begin with, we were just four young men in our early 20s, on the verge of exiting undergraduate days and entering the real world (which in reality meant two unpaid Christian training schemes and one PhD in intellectual history, but still, it felt pretty real atContinue reading “A Farewell to The Four Discoursemen”

Happy New Year! Did you know 2025 is the square of the sum of the numbers 1 to 9? (This also implies that it is the sum of the first nine cubes – the proof is left as an exercise for the reader.) I’ve been entertaining my classes with this fact, and they have weptContinue reading “Our Questing Hearts”

The King looked out into the white-specked night and groaned. “So no more flesh and wine, no burning pine logs in the hearth, no merriment?”

Christians love unbiblical words and phrases. Christian rhetoric, in books and sermons, prayers and pulpits, is full of language that cannot be found anywhere in the Bible. Words like ‘Trinity’, ‘Aseity’, ‘Omnipotent’, are nowhere in scripture, but all over Christian discourse. Note that unbiblical doesn’t necessarily mean anti-biblical. No doubt the ideas are there, justContinue reading “Unbiblical Words to Worry About”

Reading back over various articles published here, in our own glorious echo chamber, I am struck by the intellectual fertility of those early, lockdown-gripped years of the project. Perhaps it was because, at some mass societal level, the West itself was undergoing a shift – what later historians will identify as an inflection point –Continue reading “Notes from Scatterland #1”

I received an email today which began as follows: ‘Dear X, Adaptability and stability are essential in aviation, ensuring systems evolve seamlessly while maintaining operational excellence in a dynamic environment.’

Why is idolatry bad for us? Because every idol demands blood. Only if we worship the true and living God does the self-sacrifice required of all true worship – which no human being can escape – make sense, and result not in something rent asunder, but newly made whole: because only in Christ can theContinue reading “Britain votes for death”

They once got two groups of people to make some pots out of clay. One group was given an hour to make as many pots as possible, while the other group used the hour to refine their one pot to near-perfection. The group who churned out pot after pot, by the end of the hour,Continue reading “Produce something average”

It is heartening to see that Labour are at last standing up for the ancient right of the inheritance of wealth. After a century of enduring suspicious glances from the sons of the rich, the party of the many has understood the plight of the few.