Category Archives: Bible

Common Seed: Panspermia, Shared Jeopardy, and the Grounds of Interspecies Compatibility in Project Hail Mary

Posted on August 16, 2026 by nathanalbright

Paper Three of the Series “The Ledger and the Covenant” Abstract Project Hail Mary supplies a physical explanation for why two species from different star systems can understand each other, cooperate, and save one another: astrophage propagates from Tau Ceti … Continue reading →

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Two in the Dark: Covenant Partnership and the Refutation of Engineered Solitude in Project Hail Mary

Posted on August 16, 2026 by nathanalbright

Paper One of the Series “The Ledger and the Covenant” Abstract Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary (2021) is built on a design decision that the novel never examines directly: the crew of the Hail Mary was to be rendered unconscious … Continue reading →

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The Chair and the Floor: What the Death of Jason Arday Should Teach Us

Posted on August 15, 2026 by nathanalbright

Jason Arday was found unresponsive in Battersea, south London, on Friday, and pronounced dead at the scene at forty-one. Police have called the death unexpected but not suspicious, which is the careful language of an inquiry that has not yet … Continue reading →

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Domain Quarantine: The Relocation of a Practice Beyond the Reach of Its Governing Text

Posted on August 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Paper 4 of Five Abstract This paper names a mechanism by which an indefensible practice becomes defensible without being defended: it is relocated into a register where the governing text is not consulted, and where its non-consultation reads not as … Continue reading →

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Half-Verse Warrant and the Reciprocity Balance Index

Posted on August 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Paper 3 of Five Abstract This paper is the operational member of the series. It defines a computable measure — the Reciprocity Balance Index (RBI) — for any corpus that cites commands binding two parties in a relation: the ratio … Continue reading →

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Functional Subtraction: Diminishing Without Deleting

Posted on August 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Paper 1 of Five Abstract This paper names a form of argumentative behavior that has been noticed piecemeal across several literatures and treated as a general object in none of them: the setting aside of an authoritative text by a … Continue reading →

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What Was Not Said: A Prolegomenon to Reading Absence in Theological Controversy

Posted on August 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

§1. The Problem of the Settled Verdict 1.1 Two ways a field closes A field can close in two ways, and from the outside they look the same. It can be exhausted: every question worth asking has been asked, the … Continue reading →

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The Religious Costume

Posted on August 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Paper 6 of a Series on Pseudolaw Abstract Pseudolegal claims frequently arrive with Scripture attached. This paper examines that overlay directly: the passages recurrently cited, the readings imposed on them, and what the passages say when read in context. It … Continue reading →

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Judge Not?  Judge Better.

Posted on August 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Note:  This is the prepared text for a sermonette given to the Portland, Oregon congregation of the United Church of God on Sabbath, August 8, 2026.] Almost everyone who has spent time around the Bible has run into it. You … Continue reading →

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The Difference Between Dead and Asleep

Posted on August 2, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Note:  This is the prepared text for a sermon given to the United Church of God in The Dalles, Oregon on Sabbath, August 1, 2026.] Introduction: A Week Among the Dying and the Dead I have spent most of this … Continue reading →

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