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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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Idolatry as False Worship: Graven Images of an Antifragile God
Orpheus offers us a tragic parable: the attempt to capture the divine in the visible, the tangible—the idol—ultimately results in its loss.
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2025-06-14 YAM: In Place of Tears (Covenant 4/25)
I place my white gold wedding ring / My most prized possession / And the enabler of wild magic / On the cairn I have raised / In the heart of The Land…
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Socrates v. Orpheus: The Dialogue of Doubt
Socrates: / And yet, your song has pierced the Underworld. / Mine could barely pierce my own defenses. / Tell me—do you trust love?
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Listen to the Trees: Steve Jobs Keynote at the Millennium Design Conference
The four trees — Fig, Olive, Pomegranate, Apple — serve as living models of grace-bearing systems, each representing a different mode of transformation and contribution. Together, they form a holistic blueprint for designing resilient and regenerative human systems.
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Grace as the Anthropogonic Anomaly
In the old tongues of elves and men alike, there are many names for origin, but only a few for the Fall. / Yet fewer still dare speak plainly of that strange and wondrous thing: grace—the mystery whereby what is broken may be made whole, not by its own striving,…
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2025-06-13 YAM: Delivered His Message (Covenant 3/25)
I had thought the wounded land / Was broken differently than me // So I could save them / And they could save me…
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From Now to Eternity: Aion Moments
To make moments matter is not to control them, but to become present to their Presence. / Eternity is not after life — it is within life, hidden in the now, waiting to be found.
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The Tree of Life: A Universal Theory of Shame, Law, and Grace
The Tree of Life—with shame as seed, law as trunk, and grace as fruit—is a universal structure. It just shows up wearing different clothes.
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2025-06-12 YAM: Won’t Drive Them Out (Covenant 2/25)
God is inviting me / To remake the world // But even wild magic / Cannot change hearts // It could get rid of them / Destroy everything…
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2025-06-11 YAM: Unbroken (Covenant 1/25)
I am not of this world / Therefore I am broken / In very different ways / Than they are…
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Mystics in Hadestown: A Dialogue on Control, Desire, and Divine Union
That’s when the dark night begins. When you find that the Church is not your home, but your hunger…
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2025-06-10 IAM: Overpowered (Attack 9/9)
My broken body / And spilled blood / Soaking the ground // …Relentlessly undermining / The strongholds of the enemy…
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Reviving Hadestown: The Church (and I) as Eurydice
We, the Church, like to think we’re the rescuer. / But we’re often the rescued. / Not because we’re weak—but because we’ve forgotten who we are…
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2025-06-09 IAM: No Longer Live (Attack 8/9)
It feels like everything / That brought me here / Has been broken and spilled out / In the presence of our enemies…
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Muztmizt: Christ as the Antifragile Center of Identity
This impasse forces a deeper question: / Is it possible to sustain identity without abjection? / Can we imagine a structure of being that gains coherence through threat, contradiction, and even trauma — not by repressing it, but by metabolizing it?
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From Dialectic to Diaphoric: The Transfigurative Power of Seeing Christ in Our Other
This is the move from containment to communion, from defining love to abiding love.
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Beyond Orphic Idolatry: Honoring the Divine Gap of Otherness
Because the gap is not a sign of your absence. It is the space where God meets us—without turning either of us into the other.
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