The Lazy Lie: Why Accusing AI Users of Taking Shortcuts Misses the Mark Let me tell you about the morning I almost threw my laptop out the window. I was wrestling with a theological knot in my next video—something about Augustine’s view of predestination versus Lutheran orthodoxy—and had fifteen tabs open in three different languages. My coffee was cold. My
AI Did Not Pick Your Pocket A Biblical, Legal, and Confessional Case Against Calling Every Rightful Use of Artificial Intelligence “Theft”
In a Hole in the Ground: Human Authorship, Artificial Intelligence, and the Right to Sub-Create Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Before writing about Middle-earth, J.R.R. Tolkien worked as an Oxford professor to support his family. Like many academics with children and limited means, he took on extra work each year by grading School Certificate exams. While grading exams, Tolkien
Newsletter The Artist Is Not Justified by Works Effort, Property, Communism, and the Theology Behind the AI Panic
Newsletter "Signal (Interlude)" Explained: The Dead Hear and Live A Static Whisper from the Fathers on the Word That Wakes the Dead
Newsletter A Marketing Consultant Would Hate This Lutheran theology, pulp imagery, and hip hop under one roof. Plus the "Fangs" video premieres today.
Newsletter Why Heresy Still Matters Online and in Music On internet drama, wounded consciences, and an open letter to Bryson Gray
Newsletter Music You Can Hold: Collecting, Streaming, and the Christian Stewardship of Sound A follow-up to "You Shall Not Steal" — and the announcement I've been waiting to make.
Newsletter I Let AI Analyze a Facebook Post. It Was More Self-Aware Than the Author. When AI can point out irony better than some humans in Christian hip-hop
Newsletter Defensor Harmoniae Biblicae: A Lutheran Pastor Made a Hip-Hop Project. Here's Why That's Not As Stupid As It Sounds.
Newsletter Not All Reformation: Why Pentecostalism Is Outside Historic Protestantism (Pt. 2) A steel-man and Conclusion
Newsletter Not All Reformation: Why Pentecostalism Is Outside Historic Protestantism (Pt. 1) How a Movement Born in Revivalism Departed from the Historic Protestant Faith
Newsletter Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra… and the Death of a Shared Culture When Words Remain but Meaning Is Lost
Newsletter 12 Angry Men and the Art of Explaining Everything Away Christian Apologetics, Atheist Doubt, and the Habit of Explaining Away the Evidence
Newsletter Karma, Reincarnation, and the Death of Compassion Why the Gospel Rejects the Logic of Karma
Newsletter A Look Back, A Look Ahead, and Why Your New Year's Resolution is Probably Idolatry December 29, 2025
Newsletter You Shall Not Steal: Digital Piracy, Christian Stewardship, and the Importance of Physical Ownership Over the past several months, I have been setting up my own Jellyfin media server. It has been both a technical project and a personal shift in how I view media ownership. Every DVD, Blu-ray, and CD I have purchased over the years now has a secure backup copy
Newsletter Why Stream DOOM? A Confessional Lutheran Answer On vocation, media, and the right distinction between Church and content.
Newsletter Reformation Week: Why Remaining Lutheran Is Remaining Catholic and Apostolic A Call to the Faithful: Why the Confessional Lutheran Church Alone Keeps the Apostolic Faith
Newsletter The Confessional Response to Pop Culture Fear From Swiftie Hysteria to Lutheran Resistance: A Call to Create, Not Complain.
Newsletter Answer Not, Yet Answer: A Defense of Christian Polemics How Proverbs 26:4–5 teaches us to fight for truth without becoming fools ourselves.
Newsletter The Collapse of Evangelical Pop Culture Why Christians Must Replace Shallow Pop Culture with Art Rooted in Truth, Beauty, and Theology.
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