Category: Art
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Disseminating Diaphoris: Toward a Participatory Christian Education
Folks, this Diaphoric Participation—where the student actively lives into union with Christ, not just learns about it—is an intriguing remedy for our overly Platonic schools. Thoughts?
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hel.lo.a.thing (The Un-Reconciled Part)
Youth: You… are not wrong. This is the pit that all mortal life is designed to avoid. And [looking at them with shining eyes] I thank you for the costly sacrifices you made, to keep me — us — alive.
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A God Who Needs: The Divine Archetype Behind Shame
Lewis: Then here’s my thought: shame is what divine need feels like when there’s no guarantee it will be met.
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Danksgiving: A Ceremony for Holy Saturdays
Danksgiving is the sacred practice of giving thanks in the dark— before the miracle, without the music, still in the tomb.
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Beyond Cathedrals: The Kingdom of God Is Like an Ecosystem
The Kingdom, as portrayed in Matthew 13, behaves less like a cathedral—centralized, curated—and more like an ecosystem: distributed, adaptive, antifragile, and oddly fecund.
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Identificational Prayer: The Cross That Destroys Strongholds
I’ve learned that identificational prayer — standing in humility, identifying with those we pray for — is the most powerful prayer there is. / James says “the prayer of a righteous person has great power” (James 5:16), and in Christ, that righteousness is ours by grace, not by performance. /…
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Dream: Un-Conventional
People who naively assume I am going where they are going, just because they see me around, is kind of how I feel at church.
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Singing to Shame: The Gospel According to K‑Pop Demon Hunters
K‑Pop Demon Hunters is not a cute fable. / It is an epistle written in fire and song. // It calls us to: • Lay down the Law as a mask for shame. • Stop exalting purity over love. • Die to our righteous personas, that Christ may live in…
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Hello, Shame (Third Reconciled Part)
Shadow: I once… was like you. But I ventured too close to the Place of the Skull, and it began to unmake me. I let out a cry of warning, and only that cry escaped. Now [shuddering] all that is left of me is that cry, which I use to…
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CIGAR: The Spiritual Spiral of Renewal
Construction. Intimacy. Generativity. Agency. Renewal. // Each one sounds great. But here’s the thing:/ Each phase feels like you’ve finally arrived—until it breaks you. / And that’s when the next phase begins….
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Hello, Dread (First Reconciled Part)
Judge: Well, I guess because I am the only Judge most of them ever see. / It is my job to keep the peace, by doing whatever is necessary. / The only ones who ever meet the Chief Judge are the criminals I arrest. / Those [_coughing awkwardly_] who let…
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God IN the Gaps: The Truman Show as Theological Allegory
Likewise, in our lives, the cracks in our own artificial constructs—be they cultural scripts, religious facades, or egoic performances—can become sites of revelation.
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Diaphoris: Towards a Grand Unified Theology of Generativity
Whereas perichoresis describes the mutual indwelling of the Trinity in harmonious unity, diaphoris highlights the dynamic, recursive, and ecstatic agonism of divine being – a continual pattern of connection and separation that yields unbounded generativity…
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Lavina’s Unfinished Cross: Restoring Grace to The Church
…the LDS Church may be one of the few institutions left with enough moral coherence, enough theological structure, and enough sacred memory for this drama to matter—for the world to watch and learn what repentance looks like….
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Rest Before You See: A Theological Clarification on “Seeing vs Doing”
Here, “place of repose” is more than psychological; it is ontological and covenantal—a rest in Being itself, an invitation to abide in the Ground of Being. To propose “seeing” without first entering this repose may risk perpetuating the same depth-anxiety your essay seeks to address.
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There Is No Human Being: Seeing as the Antidote to Doing
In truth, there is no human being as a closed noun. There is only human becoming—or more precisely, human seeing.
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Anon Care: A Field Guide to Soul Friendship Among Strangers
Anon Care is a quiet spiritual practice, inspired by recovery and contemplative traditions, in which strangers may become temporary soul friends, helping one another discern whether their Levitical Bell—the soul’s signal of life in the presence of God—is still ringing.
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Cup of Grace – Covenant of Seeing (Artifact Card)
Forged from unmade White Gold and purified into Earthpower, the Cup contains a red liquid like the Mirror of Seeing, but deeper still. To drink is to share the Cup with the Father—to see and be seen as beloved. After one sip, you know: He sees you the same.
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The Mirror of Seeing (Magic Item)
Forged in the fire of divine surrender, the Mirror of Seeing is not an ordinary mirror, but a crystalline ruby lens, created from a ring of power sacrificed on a stone altar before a holy flame. It reveals the truest self not as the world sees, but as the divine…
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Trinitarian Theosis: The Three Names of Revelations 3:12
Write as St. Gregory Palamas to a novice, using this “[gloss]” on Revelation 3:12 ChatGPT Prompt “I will write on you the name of my God [love], and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem [peace]… And I’ll write my own name [joy] on you.” The…
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