A Traditional Christian Examination ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: A Microphone Lowered for a Four-Year-Old On the first Sunday of almost any month, in almost any of the thousands of Latter-day Saint meetinghouses that dot the American West, a familiar scene unfolds. The bishop invites the congregation to share testimonies. After a pause, a small figure…
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THE DELUSION OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS: An Exposition and Bible Study of Luke 18:9–14
An AI Exposition and Supplemental Bible Study of Luke 18:9-14, as preached by Pastor Joey Sampaga at East Valley International Church, September 20, 2026. The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into…
The Parliament of Paralysis: The Case for Rebuilding the U.N. from the Foundation Up
A Geopolitical Assessment on the Eve of the 81st General Assembly | September 2026 ❦ â—† ❦ Introduction: The Empty Chairs of New York This week, as the eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly opens in Manhattan, the world’s premier diplomatic institution convenes beneath nearly every storm its founders pledged to prevent. The…
The Missing Rulebook: Why autonomous AI cannot simply be programmed to be safe—and how humans can stay in command
An AI Investigates AI: What the Machines Cannot Promise About Themselves The Missing Rulebook: Why No One Has Programmed AI to Protect Us—Yet Autonomous AI agents now plan, act, and occasionally defy the people who deploy them. The reasons simple safety rules keep failing are more revealing than the failures themselves. Introduction: The Agent That…
The Blood of the Witnesses: Why the Apostles’ Sacrifice Refutes the LDS Doctrine of a Total Apostasy
A study in New Testament ecclesiology, patristic history, and the architecture of Latter-day Saint truth claims ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: Twelve Men Who Would Not Recant Peter was crucified. Herod Agrippa beheaded James the son of Zebedee, and Luke records it in a single unadorned sentence, as though the Church had already learned to expect…
The Water and the Sword: Sharia, Sovereignty, and the Limits of Accommodation in the Secular West
Why the Prophet’s Statecraft Still Governs the Argument ❦ ❦ ❦ I. Introduction: The Question Nobody Asks Precisely Enough In February and again in May of 2026, the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government of the United States House Judiciary Committee convened hearings under a title that left nothing to inference: “Sharia-Free America: Why…
Three Years in the Desert: The Case That Paul Was Taught by Christ Himself in Arabia
Why “Arabia” Is Not an Incidental Detail A Silence Loud Enough to Preach There is a hole in the New Testament record roughly the size of a seminary education. Luke, who tracks Paul across two continents and counts the days of his sea voyages, says nothing about it. Paul himself disposes of it in a…
Prayer Is The Greater Work
An AI Exposition and Supplemental Bible Study of Luke 18:1–8, as preached by Pastor David Jerome at East Valley International Church, September 13, 2026. The Parable of the Persistent Widow Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. — Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest . And he…
Special Witnesses of What? An Examination of Latter-day Saint Apostolic Authority
Image: A profound AI revision of the original image displayed in the Salt Lake Tribune: “Even carved in immutable white marble, a moment of divine second-guessing over the current lineup is unmistakably etched into the Savior’s posture.” Called by Whom? The Latter-day Saint Apostleship Measured Against the Twelve Christ Chose ❦ âť– ❦ I. Introduction:…
Elect Infants, Dying in Infancy: Predestination, Original Sin, and the Question Reformed Theology Has Never Fully Settled
The Nursery and the Decree: What Predestination Does With the Children Who Never Grew Up I. A Question Asked From the Graveside John Owen, the greatest theological mind England produced in the seventeenth century, fathered eleven children. Derek Thomas, recalling the fact in a Ligonier interview, notes that ten of them died in infancy —…