About

Why this site exists, and what loving God with the mind actually requires.

I spent my working life building and running businesses in physical therapy staffing and practice management, an unusually broad range of experience for someone who now spends his time writing about theology. I am retired now, evangelical, and committed to orthodox, historic Christian belief. When I write about Scripture, I am asking what the original audience, Israelite or first-century Jew and Gentile, would have understood, not reading later categories back into the text.

Politics and culture are not subjects I approach from an armchair. Over the years I have been interviewed on Fox News numerous times, and was interviewed by a reporter from CNN's Anderson Cooper, talked with NPR, hosted my own talk radio program on WFMD in Maryland and later on Mike Church's Crusade Channel, been published in a number of outlets, and had occasion to meet sitting Presidents and ambassadors. I was present at the beginning of what became known as the Religious Right. None of that makes me correct about civil government any more than the physical therapy business made me correct about Scripture; it means the politics discussed on this site comes from having watched the machine up close, not from theorizing about it at a distance.

None of this started as curiosity. Forty-eight years into following Christ, I write out of gratitude, not interest in ideas for their own sake. Whoever is forgiven much loves much (Luke 7:47), and that debt is what pushes a man to want to think well, and biblically, about everything else. Repentance has been the daily hinge of that life, not a doctrine retired at conversion, and its near-disappearance from a great deal of modern evangelicalism is one of the reasons I feel the urgency to write now.

The reason this site exists is Matthew 22:37. Jesus named loving God with all our mind as part of the greatest commandment, not an addendum to it. If we are not actively discipling our minds, we have not yet reckoned with what He accomplished on the cross; gratitude that never reaches the intellect is unfinished gratitude. That requires real exegesis and real hermeneutics, done honestly, as a starting point. But it cannot stop there. Knowing the text is the floor, not the ceiling. What the floor is meant to hold up is a Christian worldview comprehensive enough to answer for the whole of life, not just the parts we find comfortable to think about.

A worldview that size has to give an account of why Christ went to the cross in the first place; what husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, and grandparents owe one another inside a family; what the church is and what she owes her own members; what a community owes the people in it; what citizens owe a civil government, and what that government owes them in return; how culture is meant to be engaged rather than merely consumed or merely condemned; what the sexes were actually made to be; why Babel (Genesis 11) is still the best diagnosis we have for every tribal and ethnic fracture since; what a man's work is for; and now, what artificial intelligence is doing to all of it.

None of that changes the obligation. The first Christians worked these questions out in a small, largely mono-ethnic world without printing presses, nation-states, or machines that talk back. We work them out in a hyper-connected, technologically saturated one. The world looks nothing alike. The commands have not changed. The task here is the same one the apostles and the churches they planted were already doing: take what has been revealed and ask, honestly, what obedience to it looks like now.

This site is not only about masculinity, but rightly ordered manhood and womanhood, the kind Scripture actually describes rather than the kind either side of the modern argument invents, runs underneath nearly everything written here.

I do not write to be agreed with. I write to be tested. If you think I have read a text wrongly, or reasoned poorly from it, say so. Iron sharpens iron.

Most of what I have written so far lives on Substack. This site is where it will be organized, expanded, and, eventually, opened up to other voices working from the same conviction: that loving God includes loving him with the mind.