Truth with Teeth
A storm of shattered stars and drifting nebular mist hung outside the cockpit windows like the aftermath of a cosmic fistfight. The Fogrunner drifted through it, engines on low burn, cloaked in the pale blue glow of stealth mode. Inside, Julian Fog sat hunched in the pilot’s chair, eyes narrowed, tapping his fingers on the...
HYPERSPACE – HALF A CYCLE AFTER AZURYN Hyperspace streaked around the Fogrunner in long violet ribbons, rippling like curtains blown by some celestial wind. The hum of the drive pulsed through the hull, through the floors, through Julian Fog’s bare feet as he stood in front of the cockpit mirror adjusting a shimmering cloak that...
If I were an honorable man, I suppose I might say a few things I’m apparently no longer qualified to say. I might say that grown adults shouldn’t speak to one another like feral children playing dominance games on the schoolyard. I might say that public power, the kind held in trust, not seized for...
Ananke never blinked, never slept, and never made mistakes. It was humanity’s masterpiece, the global optimizer. It managed power grids, food distribution, transportation logistics, emergency response, and climate stabilization. After decades of wrestling with famine, war, and political paralysis, Ananke became a welcomed stabilizing force in a fractured world. Humans still occupied positions of leadership,...
I'm not sure how many out there are like me, someone who's stepped back from the noise. I appreciate all the folks I see on here who try to enlighten and elevate others. I appreciate those who simply create and think. In a crumbling world, I see hope in individuals. On the other hand, I’ve...
I was told this week of parents who lost a child in a household accident. It reminded me of a close friend absentmindedly leaving his child in the car at the store. It didn’t turn into tragedy; but the dad was traumatized by those brief moments for years afterward. Had it turned tragic, I’m sure...
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord… -Isaiah 1:18 America was founded on a paradox both political and sacred: that man, though fallen, was capable of governing himself under God. The Founders believed that liberty without virtue was license, and virtue without reason was superstition. So they built a republic upon two...
The biggest danger of a prolonged government shutdown is the mirage of a prosperous nation being shattered. What if the shutdown went on long enough for people to realize that they live not in a prosperous nation, but in a nation of federal dependency? By most outward measures, the United States appears wealthy beyond precedent....
Every movement needs an adversary. Every cause, a culprit. So the activist, the partisan, the reformer all invoke a shadowy pronoun: they. They are the elites. They are the corrupt. They are the problem. The word absolves the speaker. It is cleansing, surgical. By naming them, we declare ourselves innocent. Yet this linguistic division conceals...
The attitude of the Church today is, in many ways, quite different from that of the Apostolic Church. The early believers lived in the shadow of the Roman Empire, where loyalty to the state was not merely political but religious. The emperor was hailed as savior and lord, and citizens were expected to burn incense...