Michael Lynch

Mar 11, 2025 | modernreformation.org | Michael Lynch |Jonathan Landry Cruse |Louis le Blanc |J. D. Dusenbury

By Louis le BlancTranslated by Michael LynchThe following is a translation of pages 516–19 from Louis le Blanc’s Theses Theologicae; Variis Temporibus in Academia Sedanensi Editae, et ad Disputandum Propositae (Theological Theses Given at Various Times at the Academy of Sedan and Proposed for Disputation) first published in 1683 in London by Moses Pitt.

Jul 17, 2024 | buckscountyherald.com | Michael Lynch

The petals of the tulip poplar are strewn across the forest floor, their orange and tawny yellow hues mirroring the stormy sky I glimpse snatches of through openings in the now-full canopy. These magnificent columns of tree, the tallest hardwoods in Eastern North America, easily 125 feet, straight as an arrow, are known as mùxulhemënshi, “the trees from which canoes are made” in Lenape.

Jul 5, 2024 | mdpi.com | Michael Lynch |Michael Long

1. IntroductionIt is widely noted in several disciplines that there has been a growing ecological crisis for the past half century. In 1980, one of the important arguments linking ecological crises to economic production, treadmill-of-production theory (ToP), was posited by Schnaiberg [1]. This view suggests that capitalism in particular runs on a treadmill that seeks to constantly increase profits through increased production.

Mar 20, 2024 | adfontesjournal.com | Michael Lynch |Rhys Laverty

On the eve of the Davenant Institute’s publication of John Davenant’s De Morte Christ (On the Death of Christ) along with other shorter writings on the subject by Davenant, I want to give a popular account or summary of Davenant’s hypothetical universalism.[1] Hypothetical universalism is something of a mystery for many in Reformed churches. Its enigmatic character is, in part, due to the language itself.

Feb 21, 2024 | buckscountyherald.com | Michael Lynch

A change in fortune had me working from home the last couple months of the year, instead of commuting to the city. It was a bit of a shock. Consequently, I had a constant ringside seat of the woods on the deck overlooking the creek. It has been, strangely enough, a double-edged sword. Funny how that goes. Me being such a lover of nature, yet chained to the same square mile, I was ready to chew my leg off.