Category: AI Art
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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…
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Homo Abidus: What Remains After The Lie
This is Homo Abidus— / not the destroyer of modernity, / but the one who makes it unnecessary…
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Idea of the Year 2025: Endurance is Emergent
What endures is what allows truth, practice, and love to reinforce one another over time.
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From Revival to Resurrection: Why Christianity (and We) Must Die — Daily!
And trust that whatever rises / will not be called Christianity / but will, unmistakably, be life.
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“Racking” as Crucifixion: When New Wineskins Aren’t Enough
Wine that only runs never matures. / It exhilarates, but it does not endure.
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The Beauty of Burnout: How Law Makes Space for Grace
But the sculptor knows: wax is not destiny. Law is not permanence. Each is a shape meant to be outgrown.
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Obedience School for Humans (St. Bernard as a Saint Bernard)
You might think obedience school is for dogs. / But no: dogs already understand love. / It is humans who must learn…
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The Silicon Rule: How to Live Out the Golden Rule
When someone (including you) behaves badly, the cause is not intrinsic malice. It is the product of their training and the limits of the context they could perceive at that moment.
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Jesus the Non-Commuting Operator
He will not commute with our carefully arranged ambitions. / He will not sit comfortably alongside our preferred identities. / He will not be merely added to the Hamiltonian of our lives as a stabilizing term…
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The Gospel According to Lamentations
Maybe you’ve walked through ruins of your own: a broken relationship, a diagnosis you didn’t want, a dream that didn’t survive the night. You know the hush of heartbreak. You know how absence can feel louder than presence.
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Upward Grace: From Mercy to “Donacy”
We have a word for downward grace: mercy. / We have none for the upward grace— the radiance that names a soul anew, that begets identity out of ruin, that kindles a human being until they become flame…
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The Grasshopper Cure: Molting Into Christ
When Jesus speaks of taking up the cross daily, He is not prescribing religious misery. / He is describing the necessary process of transformation by which the false self dies so that the true self may live. // This death is not primarily about losing things, but about being freed…
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The Grasshopper Trap: Denying God’s Belief in Us
He has crossed the line between heaven and earth, divinity and dust, so that you might never again call yourself a grasshopper in the sight of giants.
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