Nov 13, 2020 | Declarations, Thoughts, Writings
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog The Plutonium Idol The thing with idolatry in ancient Israel wasn’t that the Holy People did not worship the LORD. Far from it–they simply worshipped everything else, too. It is such idolatry that remains to...
Jul 30, 2020 | Thoughts, Writings
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog Why I prefer the generic he to the singular they. This aforementioned principle of mine is sadly no longer about grammar; it is about a whole host of partisan issues. But I’m going to ignore all of those and talk...
Jun 25, 2020 | Thoughts, Writings
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog Are there games in Heaven? This is a question that has often perplexed me, being player of games myself, for one cannot find a dogmatic answer to it, and this is perhaps for the best. We know that we cannot truly...
May 22, 2020 | Declarations, Thoughts
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog What to the Modern White Guy is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”? I have always been inspired by the story of Fredrick Douglass, a slave who escaped slavery to become a renowned orator and author....
May 9, 2020 | Thoughts, Writing Advice, Writings
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog The Taste for Realism I have seen, and admittedly indulged in that fan activity I will call the Fact Checking Game. It goes like this: First, you take some work of fiction, particularly a popular one, and you find some...
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