Tenebris is the nom de guerre of a professor at a leading Canadian university. To those who know him, the pseudonym is rather transparent. Relative anonymity, however, does serve to protect his peace of mind...if not his shot at tenure! “In so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all” — and my colleagues have to put up with enough already. He is, in order of education and training, a mathematician, physicist and engineer, research active in rather select areas of complex systems, and whatever else takes his fancy.

Actually, the above describes what he does, not who he is — a citizen of the city of God, temporarily residing in the city of man. He believes with his heart and confesses with his lips that Jesus is the Christ, and holds the scriptures to be inerrant in their original autographs. While not a biblical literalist, he is so theologically conservative as to be antediluvian. He affirms the classical Christian creeds, and various Protestant confessions of theological depth and rigor. He needs more than the usual encouragement to match Christian practice with theory, and hopes Isaiah 58 is going to help. Further hints will be delivered with a brick.

He thinks he is politically schizophrenic, blames this on the current state of politics, and is a reluctant libertarian hoping for a monarchy. He asserts American exceptionalism in the context of Isaiah 45 and suggests some people learn a little history and horticulture.