Christo et Doctrinae

Issue 29 - Finding a Happy Medium with Digital Media

March 22, 2025

I am neither a Luddite nor do I intend to stir up fear, but I do try to draw attention to things that can affect our spiritual and mental health - and...

Issue 28 - Ohh, Heaven is a Place On Earth

March 8, 2025

Randy Alcorn wrote a massive volume summarizing what the Bible says about Heaven, and also hypothesizing about what Heaven may be like - the aptly titled...

Issue 27 - One Year of Christo et Doctrinae

February 22, 2025

This issue marks the (roughly) one-year anniversary of Christo et Doctrinae. I hope that over the past year this newsletter has helped to increase your...

Issue 26 - The Joy of Marriage, and the Grief of Children Lost

February 8, 2025

In the last issue I cited a study showing that, compared to marriage, parents were nearly 4X more likely to say that enjoyable jobs were “very” or...

Issue 25 - The Danger of Modernity

January 25, 2025

One thing I noticed near the tail-end of 2023 and into 2024 is that a discussion started bubbling up about the fact that the world is facing a fertility...

Issue 24 - Dissent, Re-Enchantment, and Lessons from Recent Trends

January 11, 2025

An essay about Christianity as a form of dissent against modern culture. The punchline is that the more Christianity tries to “be relevant” by adapting to...

Issue 23 - Happy New Year

December 28, 2024

In the rush of the holidays, I don’t have any longform topic prepared for today’s newsletter, and I didn’t want to share assorted links when I know you are...

Issue 22 - O Come Let Us Adore Him, Anew

December 14, 2024

Biblical Understanding Arguably the most iconic Christian image at Christmastime is the nativity scene, which shows Mary, Joseph, and Jesus, in a stable,...

Issue 21 - A Discussion of Women in Ministry

November 30, 2024

Biblical Understanding One of the big dividing lines of theological disagreement between Christian denominations and between individual believers these days...

Issue 20 - Waning Religious Belief Among Gen-Z Women, and Other Links

November 16, 2024

Pretty much since such things have been measured, women have been more religious than men. Recent research finds that, in the US, Gen-Z women are more likely...

Issue 19 - Critical Theory, MAID, and Corrections

November 2, 2024

Given the length of the last issue (which I’d encourage you to go back and read if you haven’t already), I will just provide a few links today. Hope you...

Issue 18 - America's Ascendant Religion and What it Means for Christianity

October 22, 2024

America’s Ascendant Religion The term “woke” is thrown around a lot these days. Critics claim that Wokeness is an undefined catch-all term used by elements...

Issue 17 - Institutional Capture and Honorable Conduct in Negative World

October 5, 2024

Cultural Understanding This 2023 brief from the American Medical Association says that both gender and sex are social constructs, noting that “neither gender...

Issue 16 - On the Usefulness of Christianity

September 21, 2024

Cultural Understanding In Issue 14 I discussed how many secular thinkers were beginning to appreciate the benefits of Christianity. Continuing on that...

Issue 15 - God is Dead

September 7, 2024

Apologetics “God is dead.” The phrase is, I think, one of the most widely misunderstood ideas among American Christians (spawning defiant retorts that “God’s...

Issue 14 - Repaganizing and Moral Equivalence

August 24, 2024

Happy Saturday everyone. In this issue I’m only including a couple of links because the first one is pretty long. I’ll be back in two weeks with some new,...

Issue 13 - Three Days

August 10, 2024

Cultural Commentary I wanted to share a few thoughts I had about the Olympic opening ceremony. I know it occurred about 1,000 years ago in internet time, but...

Issue 12 - Links

July 27, 2024

I’ve been out of town the past couple of weekends (generally the only time I have for writing) and still have some longer-form stuff in the works. So this...

Issue 11 - The Fine Tuning of the Universe

July 13, 2024

Apologetics The “Fine Tuning” argument is the apologetic strategy that argues for the existence of a creator based on the implausibly large number of factors...

Issue 10 - Happy Independence Day

June 29, 2024

Wishing everyone a Happy Fourth of July next week. Today’s issue will be a bit different format than the first few, but one of my original visions for this...

Issue 9 - Baby Don't Hurt Me

June 15, 2024

Biblical Understanding Twentieth century German philosopher Nestor Alexander Haddaway famously posed the question “What is love?” This is actually a valid...

Issue 8 - Same-sex "Marriage"

June 1, 2024

Biblical Understanding To revisit the last newsletter, I want to briefly discuss how the design and purpose of marriage inform the way Christians should...

Issue 7 - What is Marriage For?

May 18, 2024

Biblical Understanding What is the design and purpose of marriage? In a future issue, I’m planning to address a recent controversy regarding Christians and...

Issue 6 - Civil Disobedience

May 4, 2024

Theology I’ve dedicated this entire newsletter to the topic of Christian civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is the act of deliberately defying government...

Issue 5 - The Cosmological Argument

April 20, 2024

Apologetics The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God One of the most basic and powerful weapons in the apologist’s toolkit is the cosmological...

Issue 4 - Transgenderism

April 6, 2024

Cultural Insight One issue that has been very close to my heart for the past couple of years is the ideology of transgenderism and the harms that it is...

Issue 3 - He is Risen Indeed

March 23, 2024

Apologetics Greetings everyone, given that this is the last newsletter before Easter, I thought it would be good to spend some time discussing evidence for...

Issue 2 - Doubt and Winsomeness

March 9, 2024

Apologetics Outside of mathematical proofs, literal certainty on any topic is impossible to achieve. Apologists (such as Stephen Meyer, in his excellent work...

Issue 1

February 24, 2024

Apologetics: A few weeks ago Summit Church pastor JD Greear recounted the story of legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, who began the season by telling a...