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An Old Testament Defense Against Polygamy
ByMatthew Edmund July 16, 2026July 16, 2026 Reading Time: 19 minutes

The New Testament writers don’t introduce this as new — they reiterate what marriage was designed for from the beginning: a picture of Christ’s singular, covenantal love for His Church (Eph. 5:22-33), as this article will show. Polygamy doesn’t just violate a command. It corrupts that picture.

This argument is essential for understanding and refuting the heresy of so-called “Christian” polygamists and polygynists who believe they are introducing a legitimate, alternate morality that is biblically defensible. It isn’t. It turns the theology of marriage on its head.

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Life worth living
ByMatthew Edmund May 27, 2026May 27, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

For all of my love of language, one thing I struggle to get behind is the idea of “living like there is no tomorrow” or “live like you only have X amount of time to live.” I appreciate the sentiment of not wasting time — but when I take the idea to its logical conclusion,…

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Working With My Hands: A Man Who Is Autistic
ByMatthew Edmund May 25, 2026May 25, 2026 Reading Time: 3 minutes

The neurodivergent community has created a sub-culture which praises, celebrates, and honors a lack of development and immaturity. Spend any amount of time in an active neurodivergent group and you’ll see varied discussions about someone’s “current hyperfixation” or listing of disabilities like scouting merit badges. Their identity has become the disability they argue isn’t a disability.

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Autistic Identity
ByMatthew Edmund May 25, 2026May 25, 2026 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Over the last year, I “self-identified” as autistic because, well, truth be told, autism explained my life history perfectly. All of the “just” excuses became neatly explained behind autism. In spite of this, and at great personal expense, I pushed for a formal diagnosis because I needed to know for sure.

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Neurodivergent rejecting neurodiversity worldview
ByMatthew Edmund May 22, 2026May 23, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Accepting that you are “neurodivergent” does not mean accepting the ideology of “neurodiversity.” One is a descriptive label. The other is a worldview.

Used precisely, neurodivergent describes divergence from the most statistically typical neurological profile. It is a categorization — it says nothing about power, justice, or how human beings ought to relate to one another.

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Review: “Chainsaw Man”
ByMatthew Edmund May 19, 2026May 19, 2026 Reading Time: 3 minutes

ujimoto hopes we’ll take the series as serious Shonen, shoehorning deep emotional beats. Amid the awkward teenage groping, we experience brutal carnage and gore, moments of pure hopelessness, death, and loss. Unfortunately, most of the characters are too hysterical or unbelievable for the audience to ever find a surrogate for the loss. Bad things happen, but you have a hard time feeling bad — because most of the characters don’t either.

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The Church’s Neurodivergent Canary: Collapse of Fellowship in the American Church
ByMatthew Edmund May 13, 2026May 14, 2026 Reading Time: 11 minutes

Neurodivergent Christians are the canaries. They are dropping out of church attendance. They are isolated, marginalized, and sitting on the fringes — when they show up at all. Most churches simply mark them off as the “weird quiet ones” and move on. What the church doesn’t know is that most of them never self-identify. They’ve learned that doing so is not safe. Their absence goes unexamined, their struggles go unnamed, and the church loses members it doesn’t even know it’s losing.

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Ending a Conversation and Masking
ByMatthew Edmund May 4, 2026April 30, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I had to teach myself “tricks” to end conversations. I still use these tricks today. If I’ve ever spoken to you in person, I’ve used one of these “tricks”. Essentially, scripts, to help me figure out the path out of the conversation when I think it’s over.

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