Brent Antonson

Stalemate and the Shape of a War

In chess, a stalemate means the king survives but the game is over. Russia’s war in Ukraine was never expected to resemble that kind of deadlock. Yet here we are: no decisive victory, no clean collapse, just a grinding attrition that feels more like a half-finished board game than...

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

The Oxford dictionary defines fear as an “unpleasant emotion caused by perceived danger.” Yet, this definition fails to capture the chilling essence of fully capitalized FEAR—raw terror that immobilizes us. But this is not the fear of God as it was intended.