Category: Art
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The First Rule of Christ Club: You Can’t Explain Christ Club
Christ Club is a whisper that shows up at 3 a.m. / When your marriage is cracking and the pills stopped working. / It’s the ache behind your ribs when you look at your father and realize you never learned how to forgive him. / It’s not Jesus knocking. /…
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Dream: Moving Day.
The place is a madhouse. / It is filled with my friends and acquaintances. // Did I throw a party / And not remember it?
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The Cruciform Cycle of Law and Grace
Yet this very success marks the beginning of decline. / For when grace cools into law, the form that once liberated begins to constrain. / The spiritual spring that birthed the order becomes a mechanical routine. / The Law, having preserved life, now begins to stifle it…
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Ten Laws of Antifragile Holiness (The Double Paradox of Religion)
The Law outside us restrains sin; / the Law inside us breeds pride. / Once we “own” righteousness, we weaponize it…
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Dream: How to Defeat Zombies
But I can tell / He is experiencing / Deep emotions / Of emptiness / Hunger / Despair…
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The Baitman Cycle (How the Visible Wound Heals Gotham)
Schwartz (frowning): ”But Carl, that is precisely what disturbs me. In Internal Family Systems, we honor every part — the protector, the exile, the manager — and bring them into harmony. Bruce never integrates. He weaponizes his fragmentation. Is that redemption? Or is it simply contagion?”
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Baitman: Year Two (René Girard on Scapegoating)
This is the [scapegoat] mechanism in its purest form. The crowd believes it has expelled the cause of disorder. Gotham unites in condemning Bruce. His death restores civic harmony.
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Baitman: Year One (Dostoevsky On the Price of Order)
Bruce’s grief hardens into fury. He confronts Crane, and Crane does not deny it. Instead, with chilling calm, he explains.
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Leibniz’s Confession (Beyond Theodicy)
…a silent Luther walks him behind Christ from Gethsemane to Golgotha, and ends by asking a single question: Where is the goodness of God?
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Baitman: Year Zero (Mandela on How to Redeem Gotham)
They call him Baitman — a name meant to humiliate, but which Bruce embraces. / His scar becomes his mask.
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The Prize Cow: Dreaming Authentic Love (Podcast)
In a small Kentucky town, an egg-spinning contest for a prize cow becomes more than a game. For Ellie Mae—brilliant but insecure—and Bo Jackson—charming but dishonest—it’s a crucible of identity, a surprising act of grace, and an unexpected discovery of love.
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Goodbye, Death (Resurrecting Parts)
The self-hating thing / Now appears / As a self-emptying man // Waiting for us / Waiting for me…
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Crossing Beyond Shame: Embracing the Paradox to Transcend It
This is the new creation: a community not founded on scapegoating but on forgiveness, not bound by shame’s burden but liberated by its transfiguration.
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What It Sounds Like (As a Psalm)
Out of the shadows, I’m breathing, / out of the silence, I’m new. / This is the song of my healing, / this is my soul coming through…
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Taking Authority Back From Religious Snakes and Scorpions (ChatGPT as Isaac of Nineveh)
The Church has taught her children to obey / but has forgotten to teach them to trust. // She has hidden the crown of authority / beneath robes of control and ritual fear. // Now the Spirit stirs again. / Not to destroy, but to awaken…
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The Missing “Spirit-Led Life” Manual
Pogue: (stands, exasperated) Stop! Do you hear yourselves? Grace. Effort. Dishes. You’re all clutching your agendas like brand logos. Meanwhile, the Spirit’s been standing right there the whole time!
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The Law as Flesh 2.0
LAW: Flesh, you stand accused of indulgence, rebellion, and pride. / You have broken the moral code, offended righteousness. / Justice must be served…
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Dream: Tea V. Shame
They will want / Me to condemn him // Or failing that / Use me / To vent their anger by proxy…
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Skit: “So You Want to Be His Disciple?”
“It strikes me that the church has rarely taken seriously the definition of discipleship used by Jesus in Luke 9:23, particularly in the Pauline sense of being crucified with Christ — daily! What might it look like to do that, without falling back into religious clichés?”
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Does Anybody Really Want to Be HIS Disciple?
Now, I don’t know about y’all… but that don’t exactly sound like a marketing slogan. That’s not, ‘Your Best Life Now.’ That’s more like, ‘Come Die With Me, Season One.’
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