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The Preacher’s Double Correction Regarding Memory in Ecclesiastes

Posted on July 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The preceding paper named the two ways the duty of remembrance is broken—forgetting and false nostalgia—and fixed the fleshpots of Egypt as the cluster’s paradigm of the laundered past. This paper turns from the failures to the correction, reading … Continue reading →

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The Two Failures of Memory That Scripture Names

Posted on July 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The foregoing papers established that remembrance is a covenantal duty (Paper 1) and set out the machinery by which the covenant equips its people to keep it (Papers 2–3). This paper turns from the duty and its means to … Continue reading →

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The Material Witnesses

Posted on July 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The preceding paper argued that the appointed times keep a people’s memory whole by fixing the deliverance in a recurring rite rather than leaving it to private recollection. This paper takes up the second of the covenant’s memorial provisions: … Continue reading →

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The Appointed Times as the Memorial Engine

Posted on July 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract If remembrance is a covenantal duty owed by a whole people across generations, as the preceding paper argued, then the covenant must supply means proportioned to the duty—means that stand outside the individual heart and outreach the individual lifetime. … Continue reading →

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The Zakar Imperative as Covenantal Obligation

Posted on July 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper argues that Scripture does not commend remembrance as a pious sentiment but commands it as a covenantal duty. Reading the imperatives to remember scattered across the Pentateuch and the historical books as a single pattern rather than … Continue reading →

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White Paper 5: The Scapegoat Chair: Screech and the Economy of Blame

Posted on July 4, 2026 by nathanalbright

Isolating the Offloading of Cost onto a Designated Absorber Preliminary note on task. This paper does one thing. It takes the single mechanism the Prolegomenon named — the offloading of cost onto a designated absorber — sets it apart, and … Continue reading →

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A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation

Posted on June 7, 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, June 6, 2026.] Introduction: The Debate Over the Priesthood of Believers Few phrases in the history of Christian … Continue reading →

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Proportional Exposure to Downside: Why Decision-Makers Must Bear Some Consequences for Institutional Harm: White Paper No. 3 of Counterweights of Institutional Health

Posted on June 2, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines the third counterweight to institutional insulation: the requirement that those who make consequential decisions bear some real share of the harm those decisions cause. Where White Paper No. 2 argued that a responsible person must remain … Continue reading →

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Meaningful Personal Accountability: Why Offices Must Not Entirely Absorb Personal Responsibility: White Paper No. 2 of Counterweights of Institutional Health

Posted on June 2, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines the second counterweight to institutional insulation: the preservation of personal moral responsibility against its absorption into the office. Institutions exist in part to outlast and exceed individuals, and one of the ways they do this is … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Weight of What We Can Bear: Reconciling Galatians 6 with 1 Corinthians 10:13 and the Theology of Sustainable Endurance

Posted on April 16, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Few passages in the Pauline corpus are more frequently cited and more thoroughly misunderstood than 1 Corinthians 10:13. Extracted from its context and reduced to the popular maxim “God won’t give you more than you can handle,” the verse … Continue reading →

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