Organization is a big deal to me, so there are two ways to find articles here: by category and by date with dropdown menus and then complete lists below that. This is a conclusive list, seen through two different lenses.
By Category
Complete List
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Academic
- Jun 16, 2025 Job 41, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jun 16, 2025 Job 40, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jan 19, 2023 Job 33, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Nov 10, 2021 Job 32, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Nov 2, 2021 Job 31, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 29, 2021 Job 30, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 20, 2021 Job 29, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 13, 2021 Job 28, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 8, 2021 Job 27, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Sep 29, 2021 Job 26, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Sep 22, 2021 Job 25, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Sep 6, 2021 Job 24, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 26, 2021 Job 23, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 17, 2021 Job 22, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 10, 2021 Job 21, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Dec 14, 2016 Theodicy and the Problem of Evil: Toward a Christian Theodicy Which Explains all of Evil
- Dec 9, 2016 Job 20, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Dec 6, 2016 Job 19, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Nov 25, 2016 Jonathan Edwards vs Charles Finney: On the Causes of Conversion and Revival
- Sep 17, 2016 Augustine vs. Cassian: On the Tension Between the Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man
- Nov 11, 2015 Job 18, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 9, 2015 Job 17, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Sep 28, 2015 Job 16, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Sep 16, 2015 Job 15, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 25, 2015 Job 14, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 18, 2015 Job 13, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 11, 2015 Job 12, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 7, 2015 Job 11, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 4, 2015 Job 10, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 30, 2015 Job 9, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 28, 2015 Job 8, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 20, 2015 Job 7, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 15, 2015 Job 6, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 9, 2015 Job 5, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 8, 2015 Job 4, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 7, 2015 Job 3, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 2, 2015 Job 2, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jun 30, 2015 Job 1, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jun 23, 2015 Job: Introduction to the Content and Function in the Canon
- Jun 17, 2015 Job: Authorship and Dating
- Jun 15, 2015 Job: 10 Common Misconceptions
- Jun 12, 2015 Job Lecture Series from Dr. Abner Chou
- May 6, 2015 Workflow: This is How We Get Things Done
- Mar 26, 2015 ∞ In Defense of Difficulty
- Mar 7, 2015 Learning to Think 2: 5 Steps to Thinking Your Way out of a Paper Bag
- Feb 27, 2015 Learning to Think 1: Reclaiming Your Mind from The Google
- Feb 20, 2015 Lessons from Sherlock Holmes on How to Think, or The Mind Palace
- Jan 30, 2015 Information Architecture: Organizing Chaos
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Arts & Culture
- Jan 6, 2020 So About That Column in the Newspaper...
- Jan 30, 2019 How to Start Writing Again
- Dec 12, 2018 The Day I Got Suckered into Buying a Book of Poetry at a Pushy Author’s Book Signing
- Aug 6, 2016 There Really is Only One Reason Why I Can't Listen to Most Music These Days
- Dec 3, 2015 The End of the American Dream
- Nov 12, 2015 Christianity is for Losers...Sort of
- Sep 17, 2015 An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art, Or, Aesthetics
- Jul 18, 2015 Michael Horton on Spirituality in America
- May 7, 2015 Harold Best on Art, Authenticity, and the Hometown Hero
- May 3, 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron, A Thoughtful Review
- Apr 1, 2015 Tim Cook and the New Ideal (the Anti-Ideal)
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Bible
- Jan 19, 2023 Job 33, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jan 25, 2017 Elijah, Mt. Carmel, and the Still, Small Voice
- Apr 28, 2016 Making Sense of the Proverbs, or, What it Means to be Wise
- Feb 5, 2016 This is Our Story: An Overview of Redemptive History
- Oct 28, 2015 A Light for When All Other Lights Go Out, An Exposition of 2 Pet 1:19
- Oct 6, 2015 The Sovereignty of God on Display in Deuteronomy
- Sep 12, 2015 King David Wasn't Who You Think He Was
- Jul 25, 2015 “The Big Picture of God’s Mission”, a Concise Overview of the Entire Bible by Dr. Abner Chou
- Mar 19, 2015 QOTD: John Piper on Mastering Your Bible
- Jan 28, 2015 You Have an Obligation: Hebrews 5:11-14
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Biography
- Oct 9, 2015 Albert Camus
- Jul 22, 2015 C. S. Lewis
- Jun 3, 2015 Buckminster Fuller
- May 27, 2015 Maria Popova
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Book Reviews
- Oct 16, 2015 The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Sep 13, 2015 Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey
- Aug 6, 2015 An Invitation to Academic Studies by Jay Green
- Jun 2, 2015 The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness by Tim Keller
- May 13, 2015 Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen
- May 1, 2015 The Iliad by Homer
- Apr 17, 2015 The Great Conversation by Robert Hutchins (Book 1 of The Great Books of the Western World)
- Mar 10, 2015 How Long, O Lord? by D. A. Carson
- Feb 13, 2015 Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Feb 9, 2015 Shadow of the Almighty by Elisabeth Elliot
- Feb 2, 2015 How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer
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Column
- Nov 14, 2021 Column: Count Your Blessings, Starting Now (11/12/21)
- Oct 29, 2021 Column: The Ministry of Finance (10/29/21)
- Oct 24, 2021 Column: To Those in Pain (10/22/21)
- Oct 17, 2021 Column: Cultivating Communities, not Cults (10/15/21)
- Oct 8, 2021 Column: Make a Beautiful Life (10/8/21)
- Oct 3, 2021 Column: Let's Stay in the Sunlight (10/1/21)
- Sep 26, 2021 Column: Do it All for Joy (9/26/21)
- Sep 19, 2021 Column: Beyond Faith Over Fear (9/18/21)
- Sep 13, 2021 Column: An Ode to Being a Rubber Ducky (9/10/21)
- Sep 4, 2021 Column: A Love Letter to Commerce (09/03/21)
- Aug 29, 2021 Column: Magic, What the Eyes Can't See (8/27/21)
- Aug 23, 2021 Column: There is No Shame In It (8/20/21)
- Aug 13, 2021 Column: 100 Weeks in the Mission for Vision (8/14/21)
- Aug 8, 2021 Column: Murder Your Darlings (8/8/2021)
- Aug 1, 2021 Column: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions (8/1/2021)
- Jul 25, 2021 Column: Sucking the Marrow Out of Life (7/25/2021)
- Jul 19, 2021 Column: Matters of the Soul (7/18/2021)
- Jul 11, 2021 Column: On Putting Our Wings to Good Use (7/11/2021)
- Jul 3, 2021 Column: On Independence Day, Make Us Proud, Everyone! (7/4/2021)
- Jul 3, 2021 Column: We are Meant to be Burdensome (6/27/2021)
- Jun 21, 2021 Column: For My Newborn Son, Whom I Love (6/20/2021)
- Jun 15, 2021 Column: Helen Keller and the Power of Imagination (6/13/2021)
- Jun 7, 2021 Column: Understanding Understanding, the Heart of Education (6/6/2021)
- May 31, 2021 Column: On Education, Finding the Cheat Codes to Life (5/30/2021)
- May 24, 2021 Column: We Need Our Work as Much as Our Work Needs Us (5/23/2021)
- May 17, 2021 Column: Interrupting Progress with Peace (5/16/2021)
- May 10, 2021 Column: Enjoy Your Life (5/9/2021)
- May 4, 2021 Column: Passion and Resistance, Part 3 (5/2/2021)
- Apr 26, 2021 Column: Passion and Resistance, Part 2 (4/24/2021)
- Apr 6, 2021 Column: The Day God Was Impressed (4/4/2021)
- Mar 28, 2021 Column: Of Birds, Azaleas, and Money (3/28/2021)
- Mar 22, 2021 Column: On Calming Seas and Making Lemonade (3/21/2021
- Mar 15, 2021 Column: Of Fives Loaves and Two Fish (3/14/2021
- Mar 8, 2021 Column: Good Enough to Move On (3/7/2021)
- Mar 3, 2021 Column: Making the Difference (2/28/2021)
- Feb 22, 2021 Column: Listening to Your Own Stories (2/21/21)
- Feb 15, 2021 Column: Success: A Byproduct of Meaning (2/15/2021)
- Jan 30, 2021 Column: To Live and To Love: A Tale (1/31/2021)
- Jan 24, 2021 Column: Embracing Questions (1/24/2021)
- Jan 4, 2021 Column: Here's Hoping For 2021 (1/3/2021)
- Dec 27, 2020 Column: Carry Christmas With You (12/27/2020)
- Dec 13, 2020 Column: Hitting the Solution for Stiff-Necked Communicators (12/13/2020)
- Dec 6, 2020 Column: Exulting in Monotony (12/6/2020)
- Nov 29, 2020 Column: Let's Go Fly a Kite (11/29/2020)
- Nov 24, 2020 Column: Invite Difficulty To Experience Depth of Life (11/22/2020)
- Nov 15, 2020 Column: We're Not Birds (11/15/2020)
- Nov 8, 2020 Column: Keep on Grading, Teacher (11/8/2020)
- Nov 1, 2020 Column: Doing Nothing Different (11/1/2020)
- Oct 25, 2020 Column: On Becoming Anything But Boring People (10/25/2020)
- Oct 18, 2020 Column: Becoming What You Love (10/18/2020)
- Oct 12, 2020 Column: On the Discernment of the Lizard (10/11/2020)
- Oct 4, 2020 Column: On the Case of 'Mega-Fibbers' (10/4/2020)
- Sep 27, 2020 Column: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be (9/27/2020)
- Sep 20, 2020 Column: Whatever You Sell Them On (9/20/2020)
- Sep 13, 2020 Column: Refusing Mediocrity; Seeking Greatness (9/13/2020)
- Sep 6, 2020 Column: Finding Trust Instead of Familiarity (9/6/2020)
- Aug 30, 2020 Column: Recovering the Art of the Essay (8/30/2020)
- Aug 23, 2020 Column: Approaching One Year in the Business of Life (8/23/2020)
- Aug 16, 2020 Column: Following the 'Rule of Life' (8/16/2020)
- Aug 9, 2020 Column: Living on Purpose (8/9/2020)
- Aug 2, 2020 Column: Managing Risk With Scarcity and Abundance (8/2/2020)
- Jul 26, 2020 Column: Finding Hemingway's Anchor (7/26/2020)
- Jul 19, 2020 Column: How Much Is Enough? (7/19/2020)
- Jul 12, 2020 Column: Home is Where the Heart Is (7/12/2020)
- Jul 5, 2020 Column: On Two Kinds of Investors (7/5/2020)
- Jun 21, 2020 Column: Truth is the Only Solution for Peace (6/21/2020)
- Jun 14, 2020 Column: On Sympathy vs. Empathy (6/14/2020)
- Jun 7, 2020 Column: Back to the Basics with John Adams (6/7/2020)
- May 31, 2020 Column: On the Lesser of Two Evils (May 31, 2020)
- May 24, 2020 Column: Going with Cinderella (5/24/2020)
- May 17, 2020 Column: Keeping Focus on "Circle of Concern" (5/17/2020)
- May 10, 2020 Column: Brush with the Death Angel (5/10/2020)
- May 3, 2020 Column: On the Road to Overly Happy (5/3/2020)
- Apr 26, 2020 Column: When to Flaunt It (4/26/2020)
- Apr 19, 2020 Column: Opportunity to Press the Global Reset Button (4/19/2020)
- Apr 12, 2020 Column: Stand Still or Take Flight (4/12/2020)
- Apr 11, 2020 Column: Viewing the Biblical World Before Easter (4/11/2020)
- Apr 5, 2020 Column: Is It Too Soon, Too Late? (4/5/2020)
- Mar 29, 2020 Column: It's Time to Hunker Down (3/29/2020)
- Mar 15, 2020 Column: Choose Your Vision (3/15/2020)
- Mar 8, 2020 Column: Choose Your Daydream (3/8/2020)
- Mar 1, 2020 Column: Beauty Will Save the World (3/1/2020)
- Feb 24, 2020 Column: Choose Your Sacrifice (2/23/2020)
- Feb 9, 2020 Column: Of the FIRE Movement, The Business of Life (2/9/2020)
- Feb 2, 2020 Column: There is a Gift that Never Ends (2/2/2020)
- Jan 26, 2020 Column: Visiting the National Infantry Museum (1/26/2020)
- Jan 20, 2020 Column: Retirement is About Funding and Timing (1/19/2020)
- Jan 12, 2020 Column: The Evil Witch Who Stole Happiness (1/12/2020)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: The Roaring Twenties, On Perfect Imperfection (1/5/2020)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Christmas is Good News, Not Advice (12/29/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Christmas Story, Proof of Our Amnesia (12/22/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Joining the Rotary Club (12/15/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: What is Food without Flowers? (12/8/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: On the Miracle of Human Connection (12/1/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: On Thanksgiving Day: Day of Group Humility (11/24/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Don't Let Vegas on Wall Street (11/17/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Of Cost in the Absence of Value (11/10/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Overthinking the What-Ifs of Life (11/3/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: The Meaning of Life, Part 3 (10/27/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: The Meaning of Life, Part 2 (10/20/2019)
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DIY
- Jan 10, 2020 DIY: Installing Speakers on my Motorcycle (YouTube)
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Fiction
- Sep 24, 2015 The Teddy Bear Called Lyle
- Sep 2, 2015 That Song With The Extra Beat
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Life & Faith
- Jul 9, 2020 The Jujitsu Fight With Absolute Truth
- Jan 6, 2020 So About That Column in the Newspaper...
- Apr 3, 2017 In Defense of Poetry
- Mar 22, 2017 On the Childishness of Cynicism
- Dec 22, 2016 My Suffering Led Me to Question God, and That Led Me to Sin
- Dec 15, 2016 Integrating Faith and Work for a Meaningful Life
- Oct 28, 2016 My Personal Creed
- Oct 1, 2016 Putting the Mental Monkey to Bed: A Case for Creeds
- Aug 27, 2016 The Black and White Fallacy, and the Christian Gospel
- Jul 9, 2016 Israel, the Church, and the Spiritual Battle of Faith
- Apr 22, 2016 The Christian Manifesto, Or, What it Means to be a Christian
- Apr 15, 2016 In Pursuit of Rest, Dreams Can Get in the Way
- Mar 12, 2016 Death, Grief, and a Firm Foundation: In Loving Memory of Haddie Hardeman
- Feb 27, 2016 What Skeptics, Bored Christians, Immigrants, and Church Kids Can Teach Us About Life
- Feb 20, 2016 The Biblical Imagination: Turning Trees into Theological Reminders
- Feb 12, 2016 Redemption: Finding True Healing from Sin
- Jan 29, 2016 What Does it Mean to be Alive?
- Jan 20, 2016 The Sullenness of The In-Between
- Jan 14, 2016 Reviewing 2015 for AdamSetser.com and Exploring My Calling to Write
- Jan 6, 2016 Documenting 2015 in Mental Pictures
- Dec 25, 2015 Who is the Jesus of our Christmas?
- Dec 17, 2015 On Devotionals, or What it Means to be Devoted
- Dec 2, 2015 On Shooting the Messenger of Social Media
- Nov 23, 2015 Planes, Graves, and Art: How an Airshow Rocked My World
- Nov 19, 2015 Less Sometimes is More: How Chronic Fatigue Saved Me From My Achievement Addiction
- Nov 10, 2015 What is the Gospel?
- Nov 3, 2015 I Just Don't Feel Like That's Right, You Know?
- Oct 19, 2015 By Which I'm Fascinated with Humanness
- Sep 23, 2015 What It Means to Be Educated
- Sep 8, 2015 Strategies for Rescuing Your Mind from The Google
- Sep 2, 2015 Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously
- Aug 26, 2015 What Am I Supposed to DO With This Pain?
- Aug 21, 2015 I Have Lyme Disease, and That's OK
- Jul 29, 2015 QOTD: C. S. Lewis on Marriage
- Jul 16, 2015 QOTD: Frederick Buechner on God's Use of Story for Revelation
- Jul 9, 2015 QOTD: Reading changes us
- Jun 11, 2015 All-the-Things-You-Can-Do Whilst Sitting Down
- Jun 8, 2015 C. S. Lewis on Pride and the Self
- May 22, 2015 Music is More Than Background Noise, So Start Being Intentional
- May 16, 2015 How Reading is Declining in America and What to Do About It
- May 14, 2015 Humblebrag, meet Grumblebrag
- May 12, 2015 What in the World is a Self, and Do I Have One, or Two?
- Apr 29, 2015 Stop Being Ok With Being Bored
- Apr 14, 2015 Mental Models (An Introduction), the Matrix, and Worldly Wisdom
- Apr 7, 2015 The Purpose-Driven Journal: No, But Really
- Apr 4, 2015 ∞ The Psychological Benefits of Slow Reading
- Mar 27, 2015 C. S. Lewis, On the Reading of Old Books
- Mar 25, 2015 On Recovering the Art of Reading
- Mar 24, 2015 ∞ John Calvin on Prayer
- Mar 19, 2015 ∞ C. S. Lewis on Imagination and Discipleship
- Feb 14, 2015 Love that is Real
- Feb 11, 2015 On Disciplines: An Introduction
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Personal
- Jan 31, 2017 Documenting 2016 in Mental Pictures
- Jul 16, 2016 The Light of the Moon in the Dark Night of My Soul
- Jul 1, 2016 The Dark Night of My Soul: The Philosophy of Suffering
- Jun 3, 2016 On Motivations: Why I've Decided to Keep on Writing
- Mar 31, 2016 Capitol Hill Baptist Church Weekender Conference (Debriefing)
- May 26, 2015 Another Blog Update
- May 20, 2015 New Weekly Series: Hump-Day Biographies
- May 5, 2015 Derailing the Great Books and Other Personal Updates
- Apr 27, 2015 The Metamorphosis of My Desks and How I Changed Along With Them
- Mar 31, 2015 The Nervous History of a Compulsive Journaler
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Philosophy & Theology
- Oct 27, 2015 A Theology of the Will of God
- Oct 22, 2015 Evil is (Not) as Evil Does
- Oct 20, 2015 What Has Jerusalem to Do With Athens?
- Oct 13, 2015 Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd
- Oct 1, 2015 What Does it Mean to Be Human?
- May 25, 2015 Marcus Aurelius on Epistemology
- May 9, 2015 "A Long Obedience in the Same Direction": The Meaning of Life from Friedrich Nietzsche and King Solomon
- Apr 8, 2015 The Great Books of the Western World: Embarking on a Survey of Western Thought
By Date
Complete List
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2025
- Jun 16, 2025 Job 41, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jun 16, 2025 Job 40, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
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2023
- Jan 19, 2023 Job 33, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
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2021
- Nov 14, 2021 Column: Count Your Blessings, Starting Now (11/12/21)
- Nov 10, 2021 Job 32, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Nov 2, 2021 Job 31, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 29, 2021 Job 30, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 29, 2021 Column: The Ministry of Finance (10/29/21)
- Oct 24, 2021 Column: To Those in Pain (10/22/21)
- Oct 20, 2021 Job 29, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 17, 2021 Column: Cultivating Communities, not Cults (10/15/21)
- Oct 13, 2021 Job 28, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 8, 2021 Job 27, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 8, 2021 Column: Make a Beautiful Life (10/8/21)
- Oct 3, 2021 Column: Let's Stay in the Sunlight (10/1/21)
- Sep 29, 2021 Job 26, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Sep 26, 2021 Column: Do it All for Joy (9/26/21)
- Sep 22, 2021 Job 25, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Sep 19, 2021 Column: Beyond Faith Over Fear (9/18/21)
- Sep 13, 2021 Column: An Ode to Being a Rubber Ducky (9/10/21)
- Sep 6, 2021 Job 24, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Sep 4, 2021 Column: A Love Letter to Commerce (09/03/21)
- Aug 29, 2021 Column: Magic, What the Eyes Can't See (8/27/21)
- Aug 26, 2021 Job 23, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 23, 2021 Column: There is No Shame In It (8/20/21)
- Aug 17, 2021 Job 22, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 13, 2021 Column: 100 Weeks in the Mission for Vision (8/14/21)
- Aug 10, 2021 Job 21, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 8, 2021 Column: Murder Your Darlings (8/8/2021)
- Aug 1, 2021 Column: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions (8/1/2021)
- Jul 25, 2021 Column: Sucking the Marrow Out of Life (7/25/2021)
- Jul 19, 2021 Column: Matters of the Soul (7/18/2021)
- Jul 11, 2021 Column: On Putting Our Wings to Good Use (7/11/2021)
- Jul 3, 2021 Column: On Independence Day, Make Us Proud, Everyone! (7/4/2021)
- Jul 3, 2021 Column: We are Meant to be Burdensome (6/27/2021)
- Jun 21, 2021 Column: For My Newborn Son, Whom I Love (6/20/2021)
- Jun 15, 2021 Column: Helen Keller and the Power of Imagination (6/13/2021)
- Jun 7, 2021 Column: Understanding Understanding, the Heart of Education (6/6/2021)
- May 31, 2021 Column: On Education, Finding the Cheat Codes to Life (5/30/2021)
- May 24, 2021 Column: We Need Our Work as Much as Our Work Needs Us (5/23/2021)
- May 17, 2021 Column: Interrupting Progress with Peace (5/16/2021)
- May 10, 2021 Column: Enjoy Your Life (5/9/2021)
- May 4, 2021 Column: Passion and Resistance, Part 3 (5/2/2021)
- Apr 26, 2021 Column: Passion and Resistance, Part 2 (4/24/2021)
- Apr 19, 2021 Column: Passion and Resistance, Part 1 (4/18/2021)
- Apr 6, 2021 Column: The Day God Was Impressed (4/4/2021)
- Mar 28, 2021 Column: Of Birds, Azaleas, and Money (3/28/2021)
- Mar 22, 2021 Column: On Calming Seas and Making Lemonade (3/21/2021
- Mar 15, 2021 Column: Of Fives Loaves and Two Fish (3/14/2021
- Mar 8, 2021 Column: Good Enough to Move On (3/7/2021)
- Mar 3, 2021 Column: Making the Difference (2/28/2021)
- Feb 22, 2021 Column: Listening to Your Own Stories (2/21/21)
- Feb 15, 2021 Column: Success: A Byproduct of Meaning (2/15/2021)
- Jan 30, 2021 Column: To Live and To Love: A Tale (1/31/2021)
- Jan 24, 2021 Column: Embracing Questions (1/24/2021)
- Jan 17, 2021 Column: Getting Command of Life’s Stress (1/17/2021)
- Jan 4, 2021 Column: Here's Hoping For 2021 (1/3/2021)
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2020
- Dec 27, 2020 Column: Carry Christmas With You (12/27/2020)
- Dec 20, 2020 Column: On Finding Your Life's Work (12/20/2020)
- Dec 13, 2020 Column: Hitting the Solution for Stiff-Necked Communicators (12/13/2020)
- Dec 6, 2020 Column: Exulting in Monotony (12/6/2020)
- Nov 29, 2020 Column: Let's Go Fly a Kite (11/29/2020)
- Nov 24, 2020 Column: Invite Difficulty To Experience Depth of Life (11/22/2020)
- Nov 15, 2020 Column: We're Not Birds (11/15/2020)
- Nov 8, 2020 Column: Keep on Grading, Teacher (11/8/2020)
- Nov 1, 2020 Column: Doing Nothing Different (11/1/2020)
- Oct 25, 2020 Column: On Becoming Anything But Boring People (10/25/2020)
- Oct 18, 2020 Column: Becoming What You Love (10/18/2020)
- Oct 12, 2020 Column: On the Discernment of the Lizard (10/11/2020)
- Oct 4, 2020 Column: On the Case of 'Mega-Fibbers' (10/4/2020)
- Sep 27, 2020 Column: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be (9/27/2020)
- Sep 20, 2020 Column: Whatever You Sell Them On (9/20/2020)
- Sep 13, 2020 Column: Refusing Mediocrity; Seeking Greatness (9/13/2020)
- Sep 6, 2020 Column: Finding Trust Instead of Familiarity (9/6/2020)
- Aug 30, 2020 Column: Recovering the Art of the Essay (8/30/2020)
- Aug 23, 2020 Column: Approaching One Year in the Business of Life (8/23/2020)
- Aug 16, 2020 Column: Following the 'Rule of Life' (8/16/2020)
- Aug 9, 2020 Column: Living on Purpose (8/9/2020)
- Aug 2, 2020 Column: Managing Risk With Scarcity and Abundance (8/2/2020)
- Jul 26, 2020 Column: Finding Hemingway's Anchor (7/26/2020)
- Jul 19, 2020 Column: How Much Is Enough? (7/19/2020)
- Jul 12, 2020 Column: Home is Where the Heart Is (7/12/2020)
- Jul 9, 2020 The Jujitsu Fight With Absolute Truth
- Jul 5, 2020 Column: On Two Kinds of Investors (7/5/2020)
- Jun 21, 2020 Column: Truth is the Only Solution for Peace (6/21/2020)
- Jun 14, 2020 Column: On Sympathy vs. Empathy (6/14/2020)
- Jun 7, 2020 Column: Back to the Basics with John Adams (6/7/2020)
- May 31, 2020 Column: On the Lesser of Two Evils (May 31, 2020)
- May 24, 2020 Column: Going with Cinderella (5/24/2020)
- May 17, 2020 Column: Keeping Focus on "Circle of Concern" (5/17/2020)
- May 10, 2020 Column: Brush with the Death Angel (5/10/2020)
- May 3, 2020 Column: On the Road to Overly Happy (5/3/2020)
- Apr 26, 2020 Column: When to Flaunt It (4/26/2020)
- Apr 19, 2020 Column: Opportunity to Press the Global Reset Button (4/19/2020)
- Apr 12, 2020 Column: Stand Still or Take Flight (4/12/2020)
- Apr 11, 2020 Column: Viewing the Biblical World Before Easter (4/11/2020)
- Apr 5, 2020 Column: Is It Too Soon, Too Late? (4/5/2020)
- Mar 29, 2020 Column: It's Time to Hunker Down (3/29/2020)
- Mar 15, 2020 Column: Choose Your Vision (3/15/2020)
- Mar 8, 2020 Column: Choose Your Daydream (3/8/2020)
- Mar 1, 2020 Column: Beauty Will Save the World (3/1/2020)
- Feb 24, 2020 Column: Choose Your Sacrifice (2/23/2020)
- Feb 9, 2020 Column: Of the FIRE Movement, The Business of Life (2/9/2020)
- Feb 2, 2020 Column: There is a Gift that Never Ends (2/2/2020)
- Jan 26, 2020 Column: Visiting the National Infantry Museum (1/26/2020)
- Jan 20, 2020 Column: Retirement is About Funding and Timing (1/19/2020)
- Jan 12, 2020 Column: The Evil Witch Who Stole Happiness (1/12/2020)
- Jan 10, 2020 DIY: Installing Speakers on my Motorcycle (YouTube)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: The Roaring Twenties, On Perfect Imperfection (1/5/2020)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Christmas is Good News, Not Advice (12/29/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Christmas Story, Proof of Our Amnesia (12/22/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Joining the Rotary Club (12/15/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: What is Food without Flowers? (12/8/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: On the Miracle of Human Connection (12/1/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: On Thanksgiving Day: Day of Group Humility (11/24/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Don't Let Vegas on Wall Street (11/17/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Of Cost in the Absence of Value (11/10/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Overthinking the What-Ifs of Life (11/3/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: The Meaning of Life, Part 3 (10/27/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: The Meaning of Life, Part 2 (10/20/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: The Meaning of Life, Part 1 (10/13/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Risk and Reward (10/6/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Shalom, Of the Mission of Business as Wholeness (9/29/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: On Freedom: Wisdom as Required Reading (9/22/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: On Wealth: To Conserve or to Lavish? (9/15/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Retirement Can Mean Controlled Freedom (9/8/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: What is Success? (9/1/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Of the Value of Money (8/25/2019)
- Jan 8, 2020 Column: Welcome to Finance Class (8/18/2019)
- Jan 6, 2020 So About That Column in the Newspaper...
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2019
- Jul 18, 2019 Summer Vacations
- Jan 30, 2019 How to Start Writing Again
- 2018
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2017
- Apr 3, 2017 In Defense of Poetry
- Mar 22, 2017 On the Childishness of Cynicism
- Jan 31, 2017 Documenting 2016 in Mental Pictures
- Jan 25, 2017 Elijah, Mt. Carmel, and the Still, Small Voice
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2016
- Dec 22, 2016 My Suffering Led Me to Question God, and That Led Me to Sin
- Dec 15, 2016 Integrating Faith and Work for a Meaningful Life
- Dec 14, 2016 Theodicy and the Problem of Evil: Toward a Christian Theodicy Which Explains all of Evil
- Dec 9, 2016 Job 20, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Dec 6, 2016 Job 19, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Nov 25, 2016 Jonathan Edwards vs Charles Finney: On the Causes of Conversion and Revival
- Oct 28, 2016 My Personal Creed
- Oct 1, 2016 Putting the Mental Monkey to Bed: A Case for Creeds
- Sep 17, 2016 Augustine vs. Cassian: On the Tension Between the Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man
- Aug 27, 2016 The Black and White Fallacy, and the Christian Gospel
- Aug 6, 2016 There Really is Only One Reason Why I Can't Listen to Most Music These Days
- Jul 16, 2016 The Light of the Moon in the Dark Night of My Soul
- Jul 9, 2016 Israel, the Church, and the Spiritual Battle of Faith
- Jul 1, 2016 The Dark Night of My Soul: The Philosophy of Suffering
- Jun 3, 2016 On Motivations: Why I've Decided to Keep on Writing
- Apr 28, 2016 Making Sense of the Proverbs, or, What it Means to be Wise
- Apr 22, 2016 The Christian Manifesto, Or, What it Means to be a Christian
- Apr 15, 2016 In Pursuit of Rest, Dreams Can Get in the Way
- Mar 31, 2016 Capitol Hill Baptist Church Weekender Conference (Debriefing)
- Mar 12, 2016 Death, Grief, and a Firm Foundation: In Loving Memory of Haddie Hardeman
- Feb 27, 2016 What Skeptics, Bored Christians, Immigrants, and Church Kids Can Teach Us About Life
- Feb 20, 2016 The Biblical Imagination: Turning Trees into Theological Reminders
- Feb 12, 2016 Redemption: Finding True Healing from Sin
- Feb 5, 2016 This is Our Story: An Overview of Redemptive History
- Jan 29, 2016 What Does it Mean to be Alive?
- Jan 20, 2016 The Sullenness of The In-Between
- Jan 14, 2016 Reviewing 2015 for AdamSetser.com and Exploring My Calling to Write
- Jan 6, 2016 Documenting 2015 in Mental Pictures
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2015
- Dec 25, 2015 Who is the Jesus of our Christmas?
- Dec 17, 2015 On Devotionals, or What it Means to be Devoted
- Dec 3, 2015 The End of the American Dream
- Dec 2, 2015 On Shooting the Messenger of Social Media
- Nov 23, 2015 Planes, Graves, and Art: How an Airshow Rocked My World
- Nov 19, 2015 Less Sometimes is More: How Chronic Fatigue Saved Me From My Achievement Addiction
- Nov 12, 2015 Christianity is for Losers...Sort of
- Nov 11, 2015 Job 18, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Nov 10, 2015 What is the Gospel?
- Nov 3, 2015 I Just Don't Feel Like That's Right, You Know?
- Oct 28, 2015 A Light for When All Other Lights Go Out, An Exposition of 2 Pet 1:19
- Oct 27, 2015 A Theology of the Will of God
- Oct 22, 2015 Evil is (Not) as Evil Does
- Oct 20, 2015 What Has Jerusalem to Do With Athens?
- Oct 19, 2015 By Which I'm Fascinated with Humanness
- Oct 16, 2015 The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Oct 13, 2015 Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd
- Oct 9, 2015 Albert Camus
- Oct 9, 2015 Job 17, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Oct 6, 2015 The Sovereignty of God on Display in Deuteronomy
- Oct 1, 2015 What Does it Mean to Be Human?
- Sep 28, 2015 Job 16, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Sep 24, 2015 The Teddy Bear Called Lyle
- Sep 23, 2015 What It Means to Be Educated
- Sep 17, 2015 An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art, Or, Aesthetics
- Sep 16, 2015 Job 15, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Sep 13, 2015 Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey
- Sep 12, 2015 King David Wasn't Who You Think He Was
- Sep 8, 2015 Strategies for Rescuing Your Mind from The Google
- Sep 2, 2015 That Song With The Extra Beat
- Sep 2, 2015 Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously
- Aug 26, 2015 What Am I Supposed to DO With This Pain?
- Aug 25, 2015 Job 14, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 21, 2015 I Have Lyme Disease, and That's OK
- Aug 18, 2015 Job 13, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 11, 2015 Job 12, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 7, 2015 Job 11, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Aug 6, 2015 An Invitation to Academic Studies by Jay Green
- Aug 4, 2015 Job 10, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 30, 2015 Job 9, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 29, 2015 QOTD: C. S. Lewis on Marriage
- Jul 28, 2015 Job 8, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 25, 2015 “The Big Picture of God’s Mission”, a Concise Overview of the Entire Bible by Dr. Abner Chou
- Jul 22, 2015 C. S. Lewis
- Jul 20, 2015 Job 7, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 18, 2015 Michael Horton on Spirituality in America
- Jul 16, 2015 QOTD: Frederick Buechner on God's Use of Story for Revelation
- Jul 15, 2015 Job 6, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 9, 2015 QOTD: Reading changes us
- Jul 9, 2015 Job 5, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 8, 2015 Job 4, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 7, 2015 Job 3, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jul 2, 2015 Job 2, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jun 30, 2015 Job 1, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
- Jun 23, 2015 Job: Introduction to the Content and Function in the Canon
- Jun 17, 2015 Job: Authorship and Dating
- Jun 15, 2015 Job: 10 Common Misconceptions
- Jun 12, 2015 Job Lecture Series from Dr. Abner Chou
- Jun 11, 2015 All-the-Things-You-Can-Do Whilst Sitting Down
- Jun 8, 2015 C. S. Lewis on Pride and the Self
- Jun 3, 2015 Buckminster Fuller
- Jun 2, 2015 The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness by Tim Keller
- May 27, 2015 Maria Popova
- May 26, 2015 Another Blog Update
- May 25, 2015 Marcus Aurelius on Epistemology
- May 22, 2015 Music is More Than Background Noise, So Start Being Intentional
- May 20, 2015 New Weekly Series: Hump-Day Biographies
- May 16, 2015 How Reading is Declining in America and What to Do About It
- May 14, 2015 Humblebrag, meet Grumblebrag
- May 13, 2015 Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen
- May 12, 2015 What in the World is a Self, and Do I Have One, or Two?
- May 9, 2015 "A Long Obedience in the Same Direction": The Meaning of Life from Friedrich Nietzsche and King Solomon
- May 7, 2015 Harold Best on Art, Authenticity, and the Hometown Hero
- May 6, 2015 Workflow: This is How We Get Things Done
- May 5, 2015 Derailing the Great Books and Other Personal Updates
- May 3, 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron, A Thoughtful Review
- May 1, 2015 The Iliad by Homer
- Apr 29, 2015 Stop Being Ok With Being Bored
- Apr 27, 2015 The Metamorphosis of My Desks and How I Changed Along With Them
- Apr 17, 2015 The Great Conversation by Robert Hutchins (Book 1 of The Great Books of the Western World)
- Apr 14, 2015 Mental Models (An Introduction), the Matrix, and Worldly Wisdom
- Apr 8, 2015 The Great Books of the Western World: Embarking on a Survey of Western Thought
- Apr 7, 2015 The Purpose-Driven Journal: No, But Really
- Apr 4, 2015 ∞ The Psychological Benefits of Slow Reading
- Apr 1, 2015 Tim Cook and the New Ideal (the Anti-Ideal)
- Mar 31, 2015 The Nervous History of a Compulsive Journaler
- Mar 27, 2015 C. S. Lewis, On the Reading of Old Books
- Mar 26, 2015 ∞ In Defense of Difficulty
- Mar 25, 2015 On Recovering the Art of Reading
- Mar 24, 2015 ∞ John Calvin on Prayer
- Mar 19, 2015 QOTD: John Piper on Mastering Your Bible
- Mar 19, 2015 ∞ C. S. Lewis on Imagination and Discipleship
- Mar 17, 2015 Get 2 Free Audiobooks or Lectures--No Joke
- Mar 10, 2015 How Long, O Lord? by D. A. Carson
- Mar 7, 2015 Learning to Think 2: 5 Steps to Thinking Your Way out of a Paper Bag
- Feb 27, 2015 Learning to Think 1: Reclaiming Your Mind from The Google
- Feb 20, 2015 Lessons from Sherlock Holmes on How to Think, or The Mind Palace
- Feb 14, 2015 Love that is Real
- Feb 13, 2015 Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Feb 11, 2015 On Disciplines: An Introduction