Category: Art
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Hagar as a Mirror of Mary — and Us
When we flee, He finds us. // When we consent, He conceives Himself within us. // And when we dare to lift our eyes, / we behold in the mirror of their lives / the mystery of all redemption…
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INAF: IFS Night at Freddy’s (ChatGPT as MatPat)
Today we’re tackling the question no one asked but everyone secretly needs answered: What if Five Nights at Freddy’s isn’t about haunted robots at all… but about Internal Family Systems — your brain’s own dysfunctional pizzeria?
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The Hidden Cross of Friendship with Christ
Yet there is another beam — unseen, / drawn through the secret chambers of the soul. // This is our cross, the third dimension, / the place where His friendship pierces the heart…
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Jepthah’s Daughter (Lyrics)
Jephthah’s daughter embodies what theologians call a “type”—an Old Testament person, event, or institution that foreshadows a greater New Testament reality. Her story asks the question that Christ answers…
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True Denial: The Holy Irony of Peter’s Two Confessions
The story of Peter is framed by two confessions — one radiant with revelation, the other heavy with denial. // The holy irony is that both were true — each in its own way, and each necessary for the other to be fulfilled. / Peter’s two confessions mark the movement…
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RFC 23923: Radically For Christ
This document defines the concept and behavioral framework of being Radically For Christ (RFC) — a model for Christian discipleship emphasizing transformative intimacy with Jesus Christ, radical grace, and authentic community.
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God’s Hidden Face: Panim/Minap as Cosmic Peek-a-Boo
LEWIS: / I’ve been writing about Panim—the Hebrew for “face,” the turning of presence./ But I’ve coined a companion term: Minap—its reversal. / If Panim is the face turned toward, Minap is the face turned away—not in wrath, but in withdrawal, so that we might seek again. / The cosmos,…
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Christ Club: An Ecosystem Manifesto
As a sequel to The First Rule of Christ Club and The Ringless Gym, write an ecosystem manifesto around these four points. 1. Circles expand friendship with Jesus. / 2. Stewards hold tension between where we do and don’t yet see Jesus. / 3. Each tension is iteratively resolved by…
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The Ringless Gym: A Lament for the Church
I have seen men made in the ring. And I have seen boys pampered into softness beneath the chrome lights of these new sanctuaries. /? They call them “churches.” / They call them “gyms.” / They are neither. / They are parlors for the death of the will…
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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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