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Why Read Karl Barth?
For Christmas this past year, I asked for two books: Incarnation by T.F. Torrance and Christiane Tietz's new biography every theology...

Alex Renner
Jun 8, 20234 min read


Another PKD Book Review: VALIS
Last night I finished one of Philip K Dick's final novels, VALIS. One thing reading this book makes clear, for someone who has read some...

Alex Renner
Jun 5, 20233 min read
Officially an Alumni and Post-Graduation Meditations
Two days ago, on Friday, June 2, 2023, I completed all of the required classes for the fulfillment of the English undergraduate degree...

Alex Renner
Jun 4, 20232 min read


Anti-Divine Devastations: Some Thoughts on Philip K. Dick and Hermeneutics
Philip Kindred Dick (or PKD for short), the preeminent science fiction writer of the twentieth century in my opinion, was a decidedly...

Alex Renner
May 16, 20233 min read


"Great and Terrible" - A Marriage Poem
“Yet great and yet terrible,” Says the wedded pair of one, “To shave fat off the soul,” Golden results of their legal union. The...

Alex Renner
Apr 21, 20231 min read


"The Mind's Disease" - A Sonnet
Scattered, splattered, gone away, and afar, Destabilized, yet an enlargened heart, Endless space which surround the light of stars, And...

Alex Renner
Apr 18, 20231 min read


"The Popish and Prot": An Ecumenical Sonnet
"Tradition, Tradition, you schismatic," Tells my Romanish brother who stands up Atop his perch, looking madly manic, While I cringe...

Alex Renner
Apr 13, 20231 min read


"Mandalogue": A Star Wars Sonnet
"Mandos," "bucket-heads," "steel-faced warriors," We are one and then many to all those Filthy, monkish, multi-colored scummers,...

Alex Renner
Apr 13, 20231 min read


"Listen, 'Old One'": A Sonnet (4/12/23)
You look at me, deriding me behind Your darkened, thorny mask of "wisdom true," You say I need to change, to fix my mind, And form my...

Alex Renner
Apr 12, 20231 min read


Soon, Graduation
In just around a month I graduate from the College I have attended since 2019. I have learned much, forgotten much, re-learned just the...

Alex Renner
Apr 11, 20231 min read
The Beautiful Struggle of Learning Another Language
I did not want to take a biblical language. A central part of any curriculum at the college I attend is the language requirement. Since I...

Alex Renner
Feb 3, 20232 min read
The Being of God as Relations (Doctrine of the Trinity Class)
*This text is the final paper for my Doctrine of the Trinity class, which I took during the December 2022-January 2023 Winter Term.* “The...

Alex Renner
Jan 7, 202313 min read
Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Tradition
Earlier this year I was teetering on the edge of conversion to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Because of my appreciation for patristics -...

Alex Renner
Nov 27, 20225 min read
My Journey Out of Neo-Calvinism
"Yes, but how do you deal with the deterministic passages of Scripture?" I asked my philosophy professor for the second time that day....

Alex Renner
Nov 20, 20223 min read
My Favorite Philosophers and Theologians, and What They Taught Me During My College Career
My favorite philosophers, and what they have taught me. Preface: All of the philosophers I mention below have given me some crucial...

Alex Renner
Oct 19, 20224 min read
The Journey Towards Genuine Being (A Poem)
To walk or run along the strands of Being, To gaze humbly through the temple's eye, The man must embrace the ready friend, Suffering,...

Alex Renner
Dec 16, 20201 min read
Blessed Are You (Written 10/16/20)
Great God YHWH, Holy and good, make Your slaves serve, just like we should. To love and to give, to bear the good fruit, we know we are...

Alex Renner
Dec 13, 20201 min read
The Blessings of Knowing the Trinity
I attend college, if you couldn't pick up from the title of the blog. Specifically, a (very) small, Christian liberal arts college. One...

Alex Renner
Nov 30, 20204 min read
The Holy Spirit: Who is He?
A few years ago, a well-known evangelical preacher, Francis Chan, wrote a book by the name of Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect...

Alex Renner
Jan 20, 20205 min read
Sermon Manuscript: Useless Philosophy vs. Biblical Wisdom
Included here is the sermon manuscript for the message preached at Bethany Place Baptist Church in N Chesterfield, VA, on December 29th,...

Alex Renner
Dec 30, 201920 min read
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