Hey, I’m C. Harwick, and 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 a web designer stationed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I’m studying Political Science and Economics. I also have a folk metal project called Epta Astera that you should listen to. This is the third incarnation of this site – that is to say, the third “completely different” look, called “Waccamaw” (itself now on its fifth sub-revision) – which resides on its 4th (and hopefully last) host, NearlyFreeSpeech. 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 am 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. Also, I don’t believe in intellectual property.
Musically I’m the most fond at the moment of various forms of folk and European metal, especially when the latter is combined with the former. Post-rock is nice in small doses too – especially when approached from a black metal perspective, though I’m coming to appreciate sludge as well. What I can’t stand in any genre is pretentious folks.
Random facts, you ask?
- Seafood, Mexican, and Italian food are pretty delicious.
- Martin Luther and Karl Barth are a few of my heroes.
- I play the glockenspiel and some mean fooseball.
- I work summers as a camp counselor.
- Akismet has eaten 11,371 spams since it was activated in May 2007.
About The Blog
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.
Anything else you’d like to know, and the contact form is just a click away.
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