A couple years ago, as a freshly baptized Christian, I had planned to write a trilogy on the Christian attitude towards queerness. I decided to put this project on hold however after a discussion with a devout Christian who had assisted me in my coming to faith; advising that these were important questions, but it would be better to develop in my own understanding of Christianity before writing on such topics. I obliged out of humility, and now I appreciate that this was very

(Before you get annoyed - the title is merely a tongue-in-cheek inversion of criticism levied against Christians. My wider intention is...

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Within my consideration of political issues, I keep coming across an internal contradiction of liberal democracy, which seems to maintain...

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Suffering as Transformative One question is adequate in summarising the central struggle I have been gifted to deal with in life: how...

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Gambling is a Sin Even before my conversion to Christianity, I was aware that the metaphor of wagering belief in God was inherently...

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Academia is a drug, and I am merely an addict shooting up ideas to get high. That’s all academia is, that’s all academia can be. The only...

I don't believe it is a controversial assertion that the foundation and core of libertarianism is the 'harm principle', which states that...

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This is one of those articles where I’ve had an idea strike me that I trust and feel compelled to write about on an instinctual level,...

For a few months now I've been casually writing short philosophy 'texts' in a style mimicking Epictetus' Discourses - I'm up to about 84...

Darting eyes blinded by walls of rampant white. The oppressive clinicalness beat down on Amy like the sun's blistering heat. Downtrodden...

Roughly a year ago I attended a two-day mental health active listening training course; and an advert by Mind, a British mental health...