Essays
Read in any order. Each one is self-contained and each one shows its work.
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Peacemaker vs Peacekeeper: The Difference Is What You’re Willing to Disturb
A peacekeeper stops the argument. A peacemaker resolves it. Augustine’s definition of peace shows why the first isn’t a milder version of the second — it’s a counterfeit.
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Biblical Boundaries: Scripture Doesn’t Talk About Limits — It Talks About Debts
The word boundaries isn’t in the Bible. What’s there instead is stronger — a doctrine of what is owed, to whom, and in what amount. Five questions that settle it.
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Love Is Not a Floor
Ordinary people commit terrible acts using ordinary motives. Aquinas explains why — and why love makes a person more dangerous, not less, when their judgment is wrong.
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You Cannot Argue With a True Sentence
Reasoning with someone in a spiral fails because every sentence they are saying is true. What works instead is restoring the qualifiers that went missing — and knowing when questions stop working entirely.
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What the Wicked Count On
You cannot detect what someone is capable of. You can detect how they describe what they are doing — and the redescription always comes first, out loud, before the act.