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Jay Carper I sit down at my computer and start writing.

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I sit down at my computer and start writing.

If I'm writing fiction, I ask myself "What's the worst thing or the most improbably thing that could happen next?" and just start writing about it. Pretty soon, inspiration comes. I might scrap everything I just wrote, but that's ok because it accomplished its purpose.

If I'm writing non-fiction, I pick a topic and I start writing about it. Inspiration usually comes sooner or later. If not, then I set it aside for a day or so and come back to it. If I still can't get a flow going, I pick a different topic and maybe come back to the first topic some other day.

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A More Biblical Ecclesial Culture

In my last article, I introduced the idea of a functional ecclesiology, a plan to restore the ecclesia (aka “the church”) to its intended functionality. This sounds like a big job, and it is. Way too big for one person or even a thousand, but we have to start somewhere.

Note: I am using the term ecclesia instead of church for two reasons. First, it’s more accurate. At the time of the Apostles an

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The writing was good. The characters were adequate, if they felt like they were copied from a certain Amazon Prime detective series. The biggest problem is that I kept thinking "There must be something else about to happen," but that some
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I love The Spiral Wars. The writing in this book was great, if the story a little slow to get moving. The thing that cost it a couple of stars, though, was the weird focus on a robot's sex life. I don't want that in a story that's only ab
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This book could have been great, but the author engaged in too much petty semantic posturing and not enough biblical exegesis. It's especially unfortunate because I really agree with most of his conclusions.
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“If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.”
John C Wright

Vincent Cheung
“Within the Christian worldview, Scripture is the sole and ultimate test for truth. God has given us a system of truth through the Scripture. Since the Bible is God's revelation, it can never be wrong on any issue that it addresses. A thorough knowledge and understanding of the Scripture, then, is our ultimate safeguard against satanic deception of every kind.”
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“From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it’s a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what’s right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: “Be yourself.” “Follow your heart.” Only here’s what I really, really want someone to explain to me. What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?”
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