About

This blog is the stuff I go through. I need to get it on paper, just for myself. Having you read it helps keep me honest. And, maybe it’ll be helpful for you too. If I am really lucky, it might even be glorifying to God. I hope so.

My influences, in alphabetical order, so that I can project myself as a young, edgy, bohemian, New Calvinist thinker:

• Adam Smith
• All manner of 300 year old hymns
• Anathallo
• Aristotle
• Archie Moore
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Batman
• Benjamin Clementine
• Bob Ross
• Booker T Washington
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Chris Thile
• Confucius
• CS Lewis
• David White’s Sexual Sanity
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Derek Webb
• Descartes
• Dostoevsky
• Dr. Suess
• Ed Welch
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Eminem
• Equiano
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Gary Wilson’s Your Brain on Porn
• GK Chesterton
• God the Father
• God the Holy Spirit
• God the Son
• Good Will Hunting
• HBR’s Ideacast
• Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood
• Isaac Asimov
• James Martzin
• James Thurber
• John Calvin
• John Locke
• John Piper
• John Stuart Mill
• Josef Pieper
• Josh Van Swol
• JRR Tolkien
• Judith Butler
• Justin Sealy
• Kendrick Lamar
• Kevin Twit
• Kierkegaard
• La Femme Nikita
• Linda Halsey
• Luke Funke
• Machiavelli
• Martin Luther
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Marx
• My father
• My mother
• My wife
• Nick Whitesides
• Peter Enns
• Plato
• Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
• RC Sproul
• Rob Cain
• Robert Frost
• Shakespeare
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Søren Kierkegaard
• St. Anselm of Canterbury
• Stephen Speaks
• Sufjan Stevens
• The Avett Brothers
• The Holy Scriptures
• The Internet
• The Oh Hellos
• The Westminster Divines
• The XX
• Thomas Aquinas
• Tim Keller
• Van Gogh
• WEB Du Bois
• Wes Anderson
• More…