Testing for Fidelity is a project born of countless conversations, both that we’ve actively participated in and passively encountered, between theists, thinking skeptics and sometimes well intentioned but uninformed interlocutors. Unsatisfied with the materialist’s nihilistic account of reality, these seekers perceive undeniable teleological foundations in their human experience that they refuse to ignore. In the name of progress, the education of these inquisitive minds has been deprived of the vast and resonant contemplations of classical philosophers and theologians scrutinizing the human condition. In their place, our next generation has been presented demagogues, social media scientists, self-help preachers, critical theories and an ideological regression to the deification of nature itself as answers to their existential questions. This calculated displacement has obscured the fact that their deepest questions haven't been left unconsidered, nor do they lack compelling answers. Those answers have stood the test of time, coming from an age when society's heroes were its brightest and most reasoned minds, not reality tv celebrities. In our enlightened age, we've allowed mind to be supplanted by illusion as the fundamental theory of everything.

We can do better.

Much credit must be given to the brilliant minds of the past and present who have thought critically about these concepts. The articles will frequently include links to topic adjacent resources (rabbit holes) by or with some of these thinkers that we hope challenge your conceptions of reality as they have ours.

We are also hopelessly enamored with the unbounded imaginations of science fiction content creators. Often more fiction than science, but occasionally eerily prescient, these individuals extol us to entertain the extraordinary.

The primary contributor to Testing for Fidelity is a Christian. Given theism as the underpinnings of reality, we follow the Christian fathers, both ancient and contemporary, in agreement that Jesus Christ is the Logos, the Divine Reason, and is the foundation of all of history.

Effort has been made to constrain the content within a theistic reasoning to a greater degree than a distinctly Christian one for the purposes of this project, but we’re imperfect, so biases may bleed through. Resources will also skew toward being sourced from the Christian worldview as theism itself tends to be an introduction rather than a conclusion.