Tag: christ
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From Wine Broker to Perfume Breaker
MARY MAGDALENE: Brother Pierre. You savor your wine, but beware the wine broker’s trap: “No one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better’” (Luke 5:39).
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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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From Basement to Breakthrough: The Giddy Path to Christlike Leadership (Podcast)
In this episode, we trace the Giddy Path, a startlingly raw story of fear, death, surrender, and resurrection into Christlike authority. From hiding in a basement, to becoming a worm feeding only on Jesus, to leading an army through weakness and song, this is no ordinary leadership playbook. It’s a…
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2025-08-22 AAM: Cross the Border (Jackass 13/13)
To cross the river / Into the promised land / To share the hope and freedom / We have discovered together…
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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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2025-08-09 IEM: Defeat Them All (Giddy 22/22)
The towering pride / Of religious strongholds / That first protected / And now strangle / Christ // Come crashing down / One after another…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Fiery Kiss: Pentecost as Our Engagement to Christ
Pentecost is often seen as the birthday of the Church or the dramatic arrival of the Holy Spirit. But viewed through the lens of covenantal intimacy, it becomes something far more tender and more terrifying: the engagement of the Church to Christ, sealed not with a ring, but with a…
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Resurrected Words: Seeing Scarred Hands Frees Death’s Captives
From the garden with Mary Magdalene, to the road to Emmaus, to the locked room with Thomas, and finally to the mount of commissioning—resurrection unfolds through the eyes: Jesus seeing us, and us finally seeing Him. In each moment, His scarred hands are not merely evidence of past pain—they are…
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The Cross as Key to Taking and Yielding Authority
In Christian leadership, spiritual growth, and community life, one of the most striking paradoxes is this: we are invited to walk in great authority, and yet, the path to that authority passes through radical surrender. / For many, this journey is hindered not by theological ignorance or moral failing, but…
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