About

Welcome to Protestant Pontifications!

This blog is about religion, philosophy, culture, politics, English rock, and Asian cuisine. Mostly in that order.

I took my undergraduate degree in Political Science, a discipline which suffers from an inferiority complex enough to grab the word “science” for legitimacy, not having the guts to simply rest in the humanities. My interests crystalized around theology and philosophy, political theory, constitutional law (which I’ve subsequently dropped), economics, and later international relations and the Middle East. I read International Relations and Economics at Johns Hopkins University and took my M.A. at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, concentrating in Middle East Studies.

I specifically enjoy talking about Roman Catholic and Reformed social thought, ecclesiastical history, and can while holding my pipe in one hand and scotch in the other touch deftly on Austrian economics, natural law, and the Orient. I was raised in the Reformed tradition of the Presbyterian church, but joined the Ecclesia anglicana as it maintains the best of Christianity in the English world, reformed Catholicism.

My day job is working as a senior analyst in the tech practice of the Corporate Executive Board.You don’t need to know anything else about me.

Except that I wish I was a better cook in Paki, Persian, and szechuan food.