Academic Papers
"Recently, I heard a shocking story about a young boy who was raised in a coffin. Having been abandoned by his mom and dad, the child’s dysfunctional grandparents grudgingly assumed the task of raising him..."
"Two older guys met often for coffee at the local donut shop, and one morning they got into a heated discussion about whether or not there would be baseball in heaven. So one of them volunteered, 'Let me do a little research'..."
"Introduction: How to Give a Pill to a Cat! 1. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill..."
Introduction to Findings - "In his famed Lectures on Calvinism, the Dutch polymath Abraham Kuyper said that human beings as the image-bearers of God have the capacity both to create something beautiful and to delight in it..."
"What is the purpose of reading? That is, what is the ultimate end or telos of an encounter between ourselves as human beings and literary texts? A variety of answers from various..."
"Philosophy, in a peculiar way like history, repeats itself. Recent hermeneutical and postmodern critiques of the hegemony of Enlightenment science and mathematics find an interesting adumbration in Aristotle's critique of platonic..."
"Should the expression 'religious knowledge' be framed in ironic quotation marks, and rightly considered oxymoronic, something akin to the expression 'military intelligence'? Is the adjective 'religious' juxtaposed with..."
"According to Francis Fukuyama, deputy director of the State Department's policy planning staff, events at the end of the 1980s such as the demise of the cold war and the lure of creeping capitalism (even in Moscow) reflected..."
"Be on the alert! Be ready! Be sober minded! Be spotless. Be blameless! Yes, that’s right. Be on the alert. Be ready. Be sober minded. Be blameless.
These are the exhortations, indeed, the warnings, given by Jesus and the apostolic authors..."
"The sardonic newspaper columnist and social critic H. L. Menken once quipped that 'puritans,' referring to serious-minded Christians of any sort, are 'people who have a deep, foreboding fear that somebody, somewhere, might be having a good time'..."