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Faith, Scripture & Church History
Church Fathers & Patristics
Augustine, Jerome, Chrysostom, Irenaeus, and the others who worked out Christian doctrine in the first centuries — read closely, in what they actually wrote.
114 articles →Scripture & Biblical Studies
Biblical books and passages, and the tools scholars bring to them: manuscripts, textual criticism, translation, the Septuagint, and what inerrancy actually claims.
95 articles →The Apostles & Apostolic Succession
The Twelve individually, and the claim that runs through them: apostolic succession, the episcopacy, and how ordination carries authority forward.
47 articles →The New Testament Canon
The book-by-book series on how the New Testament reached twenty-seven books — and the writings that nearly made it, like the Didache and 1 Clement.
39 articles →The Early Church
How Christians lived, worshiped, and died before Constantine: the catacombs, the persecutions, the martyr accounts, and what changed when the empire converted.
38 articles →Grace, Free Will & Predestination
The long argument over grace, predestination, and human freedom — Pelagius, Augustine, Molina, Calvin, Jansen — and where Catholic teaching lands on each.
38 articles →Catholic–Protestant Questions
The questions Protestants ask Catholics and the ones worth asking back — sola scriptura, the Reformation, Luther and Calvin, and how to hold the conversation well.
37 articles →The Papacy & the Popes
The bishops of Rome one at a time, from Peter through his early successors, and the questions that follow the office: primacy, infallibility, the conclave.
36 articles →Christ & the Trinity
Who Christ is and how the Church came to say it — the incarnation, the hypostatic union, the Trinity, and the competing accounts of what the atonement accomplished.
34 articles →Councils & Creeds
Nicaea, Ephesus, Chalcedon, Trent, and the Vatican councils: what each was called to settle, what it actually defined, and the creeds that came out of them.
29 articles →Catechism & Church Teaching
How the Church teaches: the Catechism, the magisterium, the development of doctrine, and the relationship between Scripture and sacred Tradition.
25 articles →Eastern Orthodoxy & Ecumenism
East and West: the Great Schism, the filioque, the Divine Liturgy, the Eastern Catholic churches, and whether the two halves of Christendom can be reunited.
24 articles →God, Providence & Metaphysics
Classical theism and its rivals: divine simplicity, foreknowledge, impassibility, and the problem of evil, weighed against process theology and open theism.
23 articles →Heresies & Controversies
Arianism, Gnosticism, Donatism, Nestorianism, and the rest — what each actually taught, why it was attractive, and how the Church answered it.
23 articles →Sacraments & Liturgy
The seven sacraments and the rites that carry them — the Mass in its Latin and Eastern forms, confession, holy orders, marriage, and the shape of the church year.
21 articles →Old Testament & Ancient Israel
Hebrew Bible passages read closely — Genesis, Samuel, Kings, the Psalms — with the archaeology and the Catholic interpretive tradition alongside.
20 articles →The Gospel of John
The Fourth Gospel, largely verse by verse through the Prologue, plus the Beloved Disciple, the Cana-to-Calvary structure, and the women John names.
18 articles →Mary & the Saints
Marian doctrine and the veneration of the saints: the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, relics, canonization, and the Protestant objections to all of it.
12 articles →Last Things & Eschatology
Death, judgment, heaven, hell, and purgatory, along with the apocalyptic literature that shaped how Christians pictured all of it.
7 articles →Law
Estate Planning, Wills & Trusts
Wills, trusts, probate, and the tax rules underneath them — written for Arkansans making decisions, not for other lawyers.
65 articles →Business & Corporate Law
Agency, partnerships, corporations, and LLCs — fiduciary duties, liability, and which business form actually fits what you are building.
35 articles →Copyright & Trademark
Copyright and trademark from filing to enforcement: registration, fair use, duration, the first sale doctrine, and what AI-generated work can claim.
17 articles →Military Justice & Military Law
How the UCMJ works in practice: court-martial procedure, Article 32 hearings, nonjudicial punishment, and the fights over who decides which cases go forward.
14 articles →Appeals & Appellate Practice
Taking a case up in Arkansas: notices of appeal, the record, the deadlines that end appeals early, oral argument, and petitions for review.
14 articles →Constitutional Law & Liberty
Due process, free speech, religious liberty, and federalism — and the conservative intellectual tradition that argues about them.
14 articles →Nonprofits & Charitable Giving
Forming and running a nonprofit, and the rules governing charitable gifts — deductions, remainder trusts, partial interests, and cy pres.
9 articles →The Legal Profession
What lawyers owe clients, courts, and each other, including the professional responsibility rules written specifically for judge advocates.
7 articles →Service
Military Service
Life in uniform beyond the classroom: commissioning, training, deployment, and what military service asks of the people who do it.
39 articles →JAG School & Officer Training
Week-by-week accounts of the Army's Direct Commission Course and the JAG officer courses, alongside the guides on how to get in.
34 articles →Yale, Arkansas & Personal
God and Man at Yale Divinity
A conservative Catholic's running account of a Master of Divinity at Yale — the coursework, the politics, and the arguments worth having there.
68 articles →Personal Essays
First-person writing: conversion, family, vocation, and the years that shaped how the rest of this site reads.
45 articles →Glossaries & Reference
The long explainers and glossaries meant to be looked up rather than read straight through. Start here if you want a whole subject in one page.
26 articles →Faith & the Academy
Higher education from the inside: seminary and Ph.D. programs, what a degree is worth, and the Garrett Ham Scholarship at Ouachita Baptist University.
17 articles →Arkansas & Community
Writing rooted in Arkansas — local courts, local institutions, and the civic habits that hold a small place together.
15 articles →Book Reviews & Criticism
Books read closely and argued with: Buckley, Walton, Boyd, and others, evaluated rather than summarized.
7 articles →Also on the site
Smaller collections, still growing: Firearms Law (4) · Moral Theology & Ethics (3) · Sunday Gospels (2)
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