In Defense of Poetry

April 3, 2017 Adam Setser

"Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man.” ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

On the Childishness of Cynicism

March 22, 2017 Adam Setser

Some adults never mature through the adolescent problem of dread, so they adopt a view of cynicism as a coping mechanism against their inability to see the world as redeemable, which view they convince themselves and others is a more elevated and intellectual view of life. It’s my argument that this bullying of hope is simply selfishness and weakness and is only overcome by humility and the Gospel.

Documenting 2016 in Mental Pictures

January 31, 2017 Adam Setser

Following my Documenting 2015 in Mental Pictures, here are the highlights from my life in 2016. These are just some of the biggest lessons learned in a (pretty) random series of mental pictures. Here we go.

Elijah, Mt. Carmel, and the Still, Small Voice

January 25, 2017 Adam Setser

I spend the majority of my time in Bible study re-learning things I thought I knew, and this is especially the case in the Old Testament. I’ve written before of the story of King David and how I learned that he wasn’t the paragon of virtue I was taught that he was. In the same way, the prophet Elijah isn’t without his flaws. The real point is, if we don’t see these men as flawed, we miss the real point of their stories.