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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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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 Name That Became the Crime: Bag o’ Wire, Quisling, and Judas: On the Personal Grammar of Betrayal

Posted on August 3, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Most crimes are named for the act. Betrayal is frequently named for the man. Across languages that have no contact with one another, communities have converted the personal name of a particular betrayer into a common noun, an adjective, … Continue reading →

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The Millstone in Pledge: Usury, the Gabelle, and the False Balance as One Offense in Covenant Law

Posted on June 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Porterville Working Paper No. 22 Prof. Heinrich Tschudi, Chair of Law and Covenant Studies, Provincial College of Porterville I. The Invitation and the Claim Hartwell, in Working Paper No. 21, closes by inviting a treatment of what he calls the … Continue reading →

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WP-10: From Diagnosis to Repentance

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim, and it is the claim the entire suite exists to reach: that the detection of self-exemption, however complete, changes nothing of itself, and that what changes a man is the turn from exposure … Continue reading →

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WP-9: The Standard You Set Is the Standard You Will Meet

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim, and it is the claim toward which the whole suite has been building: that the measure a person establishes for others — by his judgments, his demands, his published verdicts — becomes the … Continue reading →

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WP-7: The Mechanics of Self-Insulation

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that the deceitful heart does not exempt itself by a single gross act of denial but by a small set of recurring, identifiable moves — techniques of self-insulation that can be named, catalogued, … Continue reading →

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WP-6: The Golden Rule and Its Imitations

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that the command of the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:12 — “whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them” — differs from its frequently cited … Continue reading →

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WP-5. Partiality as the Enemy of Justice

Posted on June 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that partiality — the practice of weighing the same act differently according to who performed it — is not a minor imperfection in justice but its direct contradiction, and that the law of … Continue reading →

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WP-4. The Deceitful Heart

Posted on June 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that the asymmetry of self-judgment described in the two preceding briefs is, at its root, not a defect of vantage or a slip of reasoning but a condition of the heart — and … Continue reading →

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