Writing
Articles, essays, longer-form thoughts — spanning whatever discipline the subject happens to belong to.
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Boundaries without judgment
Judging others and protecting yourself look alike from the outside and are opposites underneath. On the courtroom we silently convene when we pass a verdict on a soul, judgment as playing God — the subtlest idolatry of self — how to notice the court in session and adjourn it, why a boundary around one's own soul (perhaps the only thing in our direct control) needs no defence — don't JADE — and why even that protection runs only to the level grace permits.
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Surviving our own choices & unexamined idols
Why we defend the big structures of our lives so fiercely — not because we examined and chose them, but because they quietly became load-bearing. On unexamined idolatry — asking a finite thing to do an infinite thing's work — what an idol really is, and how to live gently alongside it.
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The dissolution of shared identity
How the big frameworks that once told people who they were — nation, church, class, place and a common media — have weakened in modern times: the numbers behind the decline, the thinkers who named it, what rushed into the gap, and what we gain and lose as identity becomes something we assemble for ourselves.
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Anti-racism law, the Nowak case, and Reform
Which anti-racism laws the UK actually has, how their application drifted into the “two-tier policing” row after the murder of Henry Nowak, and why — for better or worse — it helps position Reform for the next election.