Category: AI Art
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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…
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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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