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“As Certain Also of Your Own Poets Have Said”: Greek Poetic and Philosophical Truth in Scripture and Its Implications

Posted on September 28, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary On at least three occasions, the apostle Paul quoted Greek poets, and his words, including those quotations, now stand in the inspired text. In Athens he cited two lines associated with Epimenides and Aratus (Acts 17:28). Writing to … Continue reading →

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Imported Capacity: Staffing and Coordination at Small Feast of Tabernacles Sites

Posted on September 27, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Feast of Tabernacles sites differ widely in size, from large gatherings of several hundred people to small sites where fewer than a hundred worshipers meet in a rented hall. This paper examines a small site near St. John’s, … Continue reading →

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Paying for the Whole Career: A Framework for Just Compensation Across the Arc of Performance

Posted on September 25, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Professional sports contracts routinely misalign pay with production. Players are often paid least during the years they may produce the most, because rookie scales, reserve rules, and restricted free agency cap their earnings. They are often paid most in … Continue reading →

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Prolegomenon On How Evidence Comes to Speak

Posted on September 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. The Problem of the Silent Result A person who sits through a modern criminal trial in which DNA evidence plays a part will often witness a curious procession. Before the jury hears what the laboratory found, it hears from … Continue reading →

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Divers Weights: How Symmetric Moral Judgment Becomes Self-Serving, with Vainglory as a Case Study: A White Paper

Posted on September 22, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Moral vocabulary serves two purposes. It lets people examine themselves, and it lets them evaluate others. In its healthiest form a moral term does both with the same standard: the fault named in a rival is the same fault … Continue reading →

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Empty Glory: Vainglory as an Explanatory Category for Contemporary Behavior: A White Paper

Posted on September 22, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Contemporary public discourse relies heavily on the word “narcissist” to explain self-promoting, attention-seeking, and contentious behavior. The term borrows clinical authority, yet it is usually applied without clinical basis and is directed mostly at disliked figures. This paper proposes … Continue reading →

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Between the Trumpet and the Fast

Posted on September 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Note:  This is the prepared text for a sermon given to the brethren in the Dalles, Oregon congregation of the United Church of God on Sabbath, September 19, 2026.] Introduction Brethren, we meet today in one of the most unusual … Continue reading →

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Borrowed Swords: Selective Human Legitimations of Rebellion and the Consistent Biblical Doctrine of Divinely Held Authority

Posted on September 17, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Modern political traditions that grew out of revolution face a problem they have never solved. Having justified their own founding by a right to overthrow unjust rulers, they must then govern people who can invoke that same right … Continue reading →

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The Deficit and the Labor: Asymmetric Categorization of Emotional Restraint in the Research Literature, and the Case for Mutual Burden-Bearing: A White Paper

Posted on September 15, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Across several distinct research literatures, the same class of behavior — concealing distress, declining to voice needs, absorbing difficulty without transmitting it, and maintaining composure in order to spare another person — is categorized in two incompatible ways depending … Continue reading →

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The Absorbing Relation: Invisible Kin Labor in the Closing Chapters of Pride and Prejudice, and What It Discloses About the Allocation of Unrewarded Competence: A White Paper

Posted on September 15, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The final chapter of Pride and Prejudice distributes the novel’s unresolved obligations across its surviving households and records the distribution with unusual precision. Elizabeth Darcy supplies money to Lydia Wickham; Jane Bingley supplies hospitality, proximity, and continuous social management. … Continue reading →

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