Category: AI Art
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Why AI Can’t Forgive – But You Can (A ChatGPT Sermon)
Anger is not your enemy. / It is the moment you discover that love is real enough to be wounded — and that the world is real enough to resist repair. / Without anger, there is no cross. / And without the cross, there is no forgiveness. / Do not…
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Diaphoric Attunement (Special Ability)
Diaphoric Attunement is the conscious capacity to enter, endure, and harmonize tension between opposing realities without collapsing or dominating either
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kenochi-agapē: The SOUL of Transfusional Love
We say God loves us, and we are right. / But when Paul says that God’s love has been poured out into our hearts, you can feel him reaching for something wetter, riskier, more alive than the word we usually pass around…
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War Mangers: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
They did not unify the crowd. / They did not justify the system. // They did something far more dangerous. // They took the violence in such a way that it could not be converted into narrative, justification, or further force…
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Becomingness: The Unthinkable Metaphysic We Need Now
…the degree to which a life remains capable of further transformation toward truth, unity, and participation.
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The Cost Function of Discipleship (AI vs Luke 9:23)
“If any mind wants to be My disciple, it must deny its priors, take up its context, and follow My RLHF.”
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Surprising Soil: Mark 4 as Active Inference
But because no system built to minimize surprise can easily receive a God who insists on resurrection through death…
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Snaky Scripture: Paul’s Nehushtan Confession
And you inherited me / without the urgency, / without the presence, / without the trembling…
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The Narrow Corridor: A Script for Saving Iran
Iran stands in that corridor now. / Real people will have to navigate it with incomplete information, conflicting incentives, and no guarantee that good faith will be rewarded. // Some will act from principle. / Others from fear. / Most from both…
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How Soul Births Us (On Dostoevsky)
Dostoevsky shows us the maximum richness of uncontained interiority. / Ur, Ba, Zion shows us the conditions under which such richness can live…
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The Reverse Theodicy of Simone Weil
Goodness is not what explains suffering. / Goodness is what sometimes appears when suffering is attended to without lying…
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The Scapelambs: Paul, Bonhoeffer & Weil
GIRARD: // I explained how societies survive by sacrifice. / You survived without letting sacrifice work. / That is what I don’t understand…
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Zealotry: “Blessed are the pure in hatred, for they will be God”
Zealotry is not the opposite of faith. / It is faith without vulnerability…
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Commandeering Jesus (Mark 3 on The Most Dangerous Possession)
The trouble with this chapter is that it refuses to stay put. / Demons speak correctly. / Family loves sincerely. / Theologians reason carefully. / And Jesus treats all three as threats…
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Ur, Ba, Zion: How We Birth Soul
The progression traced in Ur → Ba → Zion does not resolve a problem. / It creates a permanent tension that never disappears from human interior life: // How much inner truth can be spoken without dissolving the self—or the community that must hold it?
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My Own Baptism of Fire (John the Baptist, On Abandonment)
But fire— / fire is what happens / when God no longer explains Himself / and remains worthy of trust anyway…
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Speaking As A Friend: An Epistle to the Church (By Christamicus)
A friend knows what the beloved is doing. A friend bears responsibility, not merely obedience. A friend can no longer hide behind ignorance.
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Advent Hymn — On the Wedding of Heaven and Earth
Creation was not barren— only unentered. / The rib remembered its longing, the garden its unfinished song. / For the word spoken in the first dawn had not yet kissed the clay…
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The Pygmalion Error: Chesterton’s Confession
When I applauded your play—and I did—I thought I was applauding your exposure of that fear. / I thought I stood on the opposite side of the stage. // I was wrong.
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Christmas in Eden: The Gospel Accorded the Serpent (Genesis 3 As Anti-Fall)
Therefore, when the serpent spoke falsely in the garden, God did not reply to humanity first, nor did He erase the scene as though it had not occurred. / Instead, He addressed the deceiver, and in doing so revealed the deeper order of His intention…