Joshua Edgren

New Logos School building. Praise the Lord.

Hot take: The poem Invictus is a paraphrase of Satan's speech in Paradise Lost 1.250-263. Prove me wrong. Texts in the comments.

Christian, what do you believe?

This was fun. Thanks to @jackmat100 for his address and @_Theopolis for hosting the conversation.

"Get in the sleigh, Edmund. We're going to save Christendom." 75th Anniversary of Narnia. Reepicheep. Puddleglum. Block Party. Join us for Grace Agenda 2025. August 8-9

"The Incarnation of God is an infinitely greater thing than anything I would dare to write." —J.R.R. Tolkien

@JoffreSwait I wouldn't read too much INTO that; UNDER the circumstances, it's BESIDE the point.

A note from my notebook, of which @EdgrenJosh cannot deny the truth.

Finally a VP candidate with a beard.

The lawless southern border threatens the lives of all Americans, including Idahoans. Idaho is proud to support @GregAbbott_TX’s efforts to secure the border, fight fentanyl, and combat human trafficking. Idaho will continue to step up, even when @POTUS won’t.

@AaronOKelley The spring after I turned 17 my dad started called me "Thousand dollar boy"...

Ron DeSantis should immediately issue a statement supporting Greg Abbott as should every other GOP governor

My statement on Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense.

Bingo.

Following Jim Jordan, I've connected Goliath's "scales" to the serpent (1 Sam 17:5). I think that's right, but elsewhere in the OT, scales are always scales of fish. So: The Philistine Goliath is decked to mimic his divine patron, the fish-god Dagon; like Dagon, his head will be broken. Goliath is a big fish from the Gentile sea. He's a beached sea creature intruding onto Israel's land, a fish out of his element. Goliath the giant is a sea monster, like Pharaoh, Nineveh, and Nebuchadnezzar; like Goliath, all those emperors and empires will be demolished by a smooth stone. And then: Other Gentile giants are also fish. Israel is a nation of giant-killers that grows up to be a nation of fishermen, led by the Fisher King, who eats fish for breakfast.

@shawnpaterson Oh man. That one's gotten me too...

This is the second children’s book to make me cry. The first was Sproul’s ‘The Donkey Who Carried a King.’

I appreciated this review of Mere Christendom by Brad Green—christoverall.com/article/concis…

@Byzness Solid stuff.

I joke about Highland Rim Nationalism a lot. But enough people have asked "wat means" that I feel the need to give an earnest explainer about why this is one of the best regions of the country. First, we must start in Nashville.

One of the missed opportunities in math instruction, as I see it, is the absence of PLAY. The old exercises in mental math depended heavily on a keen sense of number, and on creative, play-like fooling around with clever tricks. These exercises should be revived. In any case, PLAY should return. Here are examples related to play itself: baseball, for example. If, in the middle of a season -- so that the effects aren't distorted by a small sample size -- a fellow batting .268 gets a hit, about how much should we expect his batting average to go up? Or, if he makes an out, about how much should we expect it to go down? You can explain it, roughly, by analogy with pouring pure alcohol or pure water into a mixture that is .268 alcohol. The mixture is more alcoholic or less, depending on how much you're pouring into it, relative to how much is already there. Suppose the batter has batted about 250 times. If he gets a hit, it's like adding a dose of 1.000, which is .732 stronger than he's got before the hit. But it's only a small dose -- 1/250th, by volume. So we need to divide that extra strength by 250. His batting average will thus go up about 3 points; a little less or a little more, depending on exactly how many at-bats he has. To estimate this 3 point rise, you need to know only his current average, and roughly how many at-bats he has. Otherwise you do no calculations, except to cut roughly 750 by roughly 250. Similarly, if he makes an out, it is like adding a dose of pure water to the mixture. That's .000, but again, the dose is only 1/250th (roughly) of what he has already. So his average will drop by about 1 point. These are quick and dirty estimations, but they do work, and they give the kid a sense of how ratios effect one another. The kid will then, we hope, eventually learn to see at a glance that 13/29 is less than 14/31, without having to do any calculations. This is PLAY. Just one form of play -- there are countless others that have to do with numbers, measurements, shapes, volumes, recursions, and so on.