Favorite Undergrad Papers: The Reliability of the Gospels

Click here for more posts in this series. This was the last undergrad research paper I wrote. I think it was one of my best papers, and it is certainly one of my favorites. For the foreseeable future, this will be the last paper I share in this series. Thanks for reading! The Reliability of Read More …

Favorite Undergrad Papers: The Gender Pay Gap as a Natural Feature of a Free Society

Click here for more posts in this series. This was not actually a college paper. This was a research proposal for a scholarship program with the American Enterprise Institute. One of my Honors professors (Dr. Raeder) sponsored me, and had I been awarded the scholarship, I would have written this research paper over the course Read More …

Favorite Undergrad Papers: Truth and Reality According to Plato, Calvin, Descartes, and Rorty

Click here for more posts in this series. Not my proudest work here. This was my final paper for the Honors class “The World of Despair & Hope.” I turned it in late and incomplete. It reads more like a research proposal than a finished paper, and there is not much of a conclusion. (I Read More …

Psalm 77 — Finding Relief in the Lord in a Season of Distress

This is the outline from a teaching I gave this past Sunday on Psalm 77. This is just an outline, not a full manuscript. But I added a few extra paragraphs and sentences to fill it out a little. I recommend reading Psalm 77:1-20 first and then going through the outline with the psalm open Read More …

Favorite Undergrad Papers: Exegesis of Job 7:17-21

Click here for more posts in this series. This was a short exegetical paper I wrote for the class “Exploring the Old Testament” with Dr. Maxwell in Fall 2016. I don’t know if I’ll share my other exegesis papers in this series, but I had to at least share this one since it is this Read More …

Favorite Undergrad Papers: Ivan Ilyich, the Loving Stoic

Click here for more posts in this series. My professor for this class was really into Russian authors like Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy, and one of the stories he had us read was the short story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Tolstoy. If you are already familiar with that story, then this research paper Read More …

Favorite Undergrad Papers: Honors Application Essay

Click here for more posts in this series. This first one was not actually a paper. This was an application essay for the Frederick Supper Honors Program at PBA that I submitted in January 2015 in my senior year of high school. I was accepted and almost completed the whole program but ended up dropping Read More …

Favorite Undergrad Papers

Yesterday morning, after a long and short four years of hardship and fun, I graduated from Palm Beach Atlantic University with a B.A. in Biblical & Theological Studies. Now what does a writer do after concluding another major stage of his life? He writes about it. He thinks much and writes much. Some of that Read More …

Writing Humor: An Example from G. K. Chesterton

I love reading older literature because I learn so much about how to write literature today from how it was written in the past. One thing I am often impressed with is how older writers like G. K. Chesterton were so good at writing humor. Chaucer and Shakespeare were skilled in this too, as was Read More …