Author: Z S
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Why and How to Keep Up with World News
When Americans look around the world, we often see more of ourselves. America boasts massive influence in the international community. From America come many of the world’s top academic institutions, the greatest inventions of the past century, and the power behind general global peace and economic prosperity. In spite of the millennia-old musical traditions of…
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In Defense of Direct Dialogue
When groups with differing paradigms come together to engage in direct contact, the resulting clash is horrendous, destructive, charged with emotions. The Proud Boys in Portland, Antifa in Berkeley, an 85-year-old protester beaten up outside a Planned Parenthood in San Francisco, a boy in DC who had the nerve to smile at a Native American…
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Is Circumcision Efficacious?
This is a response to Daniel Sutkowski’s Baptism and Circumcision, which extended into his conversation with Anisha on Efficacious Baptism. I push back against the stance that physical circumcision is efficacious. Daniel contends that physical circumcision is efficacious.* Efficacy entails not only necessity, but also sufficiency. (Genesis 17:4 commands circumcision, making it a necessary to…
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Halakhah and New York’s Recent Abortion Law
A month from its signing, I examine New York’s recent abortion law (the Reproductive Health Act, or RHA) under the lenses of Jewish law (halakhah). The RHA institutes two major changes: 1) it takes abortion out of laws regarding criminal activity, and 2) it allows abortion when “the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the…
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Understanding Galatians 4:7
In Galatians 4, Paul teaches us about maturing our relationship with God. In verse 7, he writes, “you are no longer a slave but a child.” For some time, this verse baffled me. I had understood that, if we give ourselves completely to God, then we are His slave, and He our master. Paul himself…
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Abortion and the Utility Monster
Morning Walk is hosting a trip to the annual March for Life at the National Mall on January 18. This is the first in a series of articles focusing on the issue of abortion. This article does not make a case against abortion per se. Rather, it counters a common argument in support of abortion.
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Response: Words and the Meaning of Meaning
This is a response to Vlad’s Words and the Meaning of Meaning. In this post, I mean to present neither hard nor fast rules for usage of words and language. Both carry the weight of complexities which
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Cain’s Lesson on “Blood and Soil”
“Blood and soil” was a slogan used by Nazis to represent two of their values: the German Volk, and the rural lifestyle. Nazis used this propaganda to combine the idyllic rural lifestyle (“soil”) with their message of racism (“blood”). It made a strong connection between one’s blood and the soil one lives on, setting the…
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Chesterton and Christian (Counter-)Culture
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2). Evangelical Christians have long used this verse, and many others, to set the foundation for Christian counter-culturalism. And that not…
