Essays and Short Works

Untimely Dialogues comprise a very different sort of material, apparently by Hieronymus de Cassandra.

Toward the Resuscitation of Art is the result of applying the Socratic method to the question “What is Art?  Instructive because Art is only one of a great number of words that have lost their meaning through misuse and relativism.

The Truth of Consequences shows that man can neither hide from nor change his nature.

Ostracism and Burning at the Stake shows that the worth of an idea may be measured by what we are willing to pay for it.

Standards confronts the post boomer eras with our theft of their culture.

The Sauna recreates “hot” topics of discussion.

Marriage in Shakespeare reminds us of what post-moderns have forgotten in marriage.

Objectivity and Empiricism in History and Science examines the notion of objectivity and the difference between History and Science.

Conspiracy Theorists pokes a little fun at the Post-Hippie culture.

Good Enough for Who it’s for reminds us of why we should be educated.

Analysis of Heart of Darkness  completes a literary analysis of Conrad’s great work.

Amadeus shows our love affair with mediocrity.

The Failure that is Psychology demonstrates the bankruptcy of modern psychology as a science.

A Novel Approach to Psychology offers the basis for a Christian psychology.

One Application or Many? (Leigh S. Shaffer) helps sharpen our Hermeneutic focus.

The Student, The Fish, and Agassiz, (by the Student) – another helpful paper on hermeneutics.

The Dreamweaver Tour is an abstract of the historical process used in Dreamweaver and Soulgriever (in Untimely Dialogues).  It provides an overview that allows for the interpretation of Church history and aids in Biblical exegesis.

Faith and Knowledge  shows that faith is the vehicle of almost all personal knowledge.

America was a Christian Nation demonstrates the most visible but overlooked proof of America’s Christian founding and early years.

 Adventures of an American Dollar A quick look at how money works.

Implications of the Laws of Science Concerning the Origin and Destiny of the Universe, by David Penny, is a concise statement of the Laws of Thermodynamics presented in the appendix of his Masters Thesis at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Certainty and its Acquisition An examination of  knowledge and what it is that produces certainty.

On The Law defines and compares the Biblically mandated response of Christians to the various kinds of Law, from the Bible, The American Constitution, and History.