Category: Art
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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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The Dance of Shalom: Peace as Practice, not Pursuit
Shalom is what dances in the kitchen when your heart is cracked wide open, and you still choose to lift your eyes.
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RANGER BEVERE: Don’t Feed the Scavenger
You don’t fight scavengers with fists. / You fight them with light and a clean camp…
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Narrowest Path: The Dangerous Victory of Properly Honoring Satan
The most dangerous Christian isn’t the loudest one. / It’s the one who walks with quiet authority. / The one who has stopped pretending they have no darkness—and instead has dragged that darkness into the light…
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Defending Diaphoric Participation: Towards a Grand Unified Theology
John (raising a brow): You are dangerously close to universalizing a metaphor. // Presenter: True. But I argue it’s more than a metaphor–it’s a **meta-structure**. Diaphoric participation is _how_ theology happens, not just what it says.
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Defending Diaphoris: A Thesis Committee Across Time
Gregory: Hmm. Ecstatic agony, you say. That’s almost erotic. I rather like it. Reminds me of what I called “divine eros” in my Fifth Theological Oration. Though you walk a dangerous path—difference must be borne without division. The Trinity is not tension, but harmony…
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Cross-Purposes: Alienation as the Architecture of Redemption
When we feel most alienated from the God we know, it is because we are closer to the God who is. // When we feel most alienated from the people we know, it is because we are closer to the self we do not know. // The worst feeling on…
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