Monthly Archives: December 2025

White Paper: AI Proliferation and the Intensification of Publish-or-Perish Pressures and Intellectual Productivity Demands

Executive Summary The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence—particularly large language models capable of generating sophisticated analysis, literature reviews, creative content, and technical writing—has transformed the economics of knowledge production. What was once a human-bounded endeavor is now accelerated by computational … Continue reading

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White Paper: Training Students and Educators to Use AI for Biblicist Analysis While Preserving Sound Interpretive Guardrails

Executive Summary As AI systems become increasingly capable of generating theological commentary, exegetical insights, and instructional materials, Christian educators face a growing need to integrate these tools without compromising biblically faithful interpretation. AI can accelerate learning, broaden access to historical … Continue reading

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White Paper: The Ethics and Economics of Compassionate Intellectual Property Governance: Balancing Human Dignity, Corporate Stewardship, and Sustainable Innovation

Executive Summary Compassionate IP governance refers to the rare but ethically significant practice whereby a corporation voluntarily transfers, shares, or reassigns intellectual property rights to an employee or creator in response to extraordinary personal circumstances. The classic historical case—Montgomery Ward’s … Continue reading

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White Paper: Male vs. Female Lyrics in Toto’s “Georgy Porgy” and Their Relationship to the Nursery Rhyme

1. Overview and Research Question Toto’s 1978 song “Georgy Porgy” is built around a striking contrast: Male lead vocal (Steve Lukather): introspective, guilty, lovesick first-person verses. Female vocal (Cheryl Lynn): a looping, almost accusatory nursery-rhyme hook (“Georgy Porgy, pudding and … Continue reading

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White Paper: “The Kingdom of God Is at Hand”: A Biblicist Analysis of the Phrase “At Hand” in Scripture and Extra-Biblical Literature

Executive Summary The expression “the kingdom of God is at hand” (e.g., Mark 1:15; Matthew 3:2; Matthew 4:17) is among the most programmatic declarations in the New Testament. Yet the meaning of “at hand” is frequently misunderstood due to modern … Continue reading

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White Paper: When the Clock Breaks: The Problem of Incorrect System Time, Its Meaning, Risks, and Remedies

Executive Summary Incorrect system time on a computer is one of the most deceptively simple technical problems. To the average user it appears trivial—“the clock is off”—but in modern computing, timekeeping is deeply embedded in authentication, encryption, file management, update … Continue reading

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White Paper: A Biblicist Position on Patriarchy and its Limits

Executive Summary “Patriarchy” is often used imprecisely, referring at times to legitimate biblical headship and at other times to authoritarian domestic systems foreign to Scripture. This white paper clarifies: The biblically defined structure of male headship in the home and … Continue reading

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White Paper: Samuel Ryan Curtis as a Political and Military General in the American Civil War

Executive Summary Samuel Ryan Curtis (1805–1866) was one of the most unusual Union generals of the Civil War: an engineer, a West Point graduate, a three-term Congressman, a military administrator, and the victor of the strategically important Battle of Pea … Continue reading

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White Paper: The Earliest Historical True Crime Literature and What It Reveals About Readers’ Appetite for Crime and Punishment

Executive Summary True crime is often considered a modern genre, shaped by mass literacy and commercial printing. In reality, the fascination with recounting real acts of violence, theft, deception, and justice is nearly as old as recorded history. Across ancient … Continue reading

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White Paper: Geographical Distribution of Postures and Their Use as Indicators of Cultural Identity

Executive Summary This white paper examines the concept of physical posture as a potential marker of cultural identity and investigates whether variations in habitual body postures across populations correspond meaningfully to cultural, environmental, historical, or social differences. Drawing from anthropological … Continue reading

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