About The Author

That's me

Hey, I’m C. Harwick, and I like cats. This is the part where I’m supposed to tell you that I’m passionate. Instead, I’d like to let my work and my writings stand for themselves.

I’m stationed in Raleigh for the present, where I moved after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010 with a degree in Political Science and Economics. I am a…

Thinker

I’m a Christian first and foremost: I believe in Christ’s bodily resurrection and the sovereignty of God (meticulous, if you care to know). Politically, I advocate a separation between religion and government, but for the sake of the Church more than the state. Economically I believe in the free market, and given the current setup of the world I tend towards Minarchist Libertarianism. Though with an ideal superstructure, I’d rather be agnarchist. And, obviously, I believe my faith is compatible with my economic beliefs. Also, I don’t believe in intellectual property.

My favorite books so far have been Desiring God by John Piper and Human Action by Ludwig von Mises. They represent the biggest influences on my thinking in the realms of theology and economics, respectively.

Writer

The blog is a way for me to work out in my own mind and in a coherent fashion thoughts that bounce around there in primitive and focused form. I make no pretensions that any of what I write is new to the face of the earth (though most of it is new and cool to me) or that I’m a good writer. Much of what I write may come across as dogmatic, but for the most part that is the sieve through which these ideas – mostly new – are refined and articulated. Though I’d love to convince people of one thing or another, my goal is mainly to consistently systematize the knowledge that’s been passed down and to apply that to the issues we face as a Church and as a society.

This of course does not preclude occasional self-indulgent musings like music reviews. In addition, thoughts from the blog will occasionally be compiled and put in neater and more professional form in the Writings section.

Designer

I’ve been making websites since 2004, when I had a Geocities account (RIP), though I wouldn’t venture to call anything I did “web design” until 2006. This is the third incarnation of this site – that is to say, the third “completely different” look, called “Waccamaw” (itself now on its fifth major sub-revision). I’m a fan of both minimal and ornate designs – a tension which is reflected in my design work, without making it come out as something merely halfway between. I love making information easily digestible. You can check out what I do over at the Portfolio page.

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Music lover

On Heavy Rotation

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Year Of No Light 		Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
Les Discrets 		A Collapse Of Faith
A Collapse Of Faith
October Falls

ambient black metal dark folk darkwave doom metal folk folk metal folk rock german gothic industrial medieval metal mittelalter neofolk post-rock

My Complete Musical Taste »


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Random facts, you ask?

  • I play the glockenspiel and some mean fooseball.
  • Speaking of the glockenspiel, I have a folk metal band called Epta Astera.
  • Martin Luther and Karl Barth are a few of my heroes.
  • Seafood, Mexican, and Italian food are pretty delicious.
  • I used to work summers as a camp counselor.
  • Akismet has eaten 14,052 spams since it was activated in May 2007.

Anything else you’d like to know, and the contact form is just a click away.