Tag: communion
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2025-09-27 IAM: Provide Wives (Idol 17/20)
When our wives and children see us / They are excited by our return / At least at first…
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2025-08-28 SAM: Life Mission (Son A 5/8)
But what still I don’t understand / Is why that requires leaving / The place of perfect love…
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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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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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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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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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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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Deaf Spots, Negotiated Selves, and the Quest for True Communion
This essay explores the anatomy of that deafness—not as moral failure, but as a structure of survival, encoded in what we now call the Negotiated Selves. And it points toward a more compassionate, communal vision of integration: not as personal wholeness alone, but as the shared practice of hearing for…
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Is It Unbiblical for Protestants to Reject Mormonism for Being Unbiblical?
That is, can Protestants—who themselves broke with centuries of tradition in the name of sola scriptura—consistently exclude Mormons simply because they appeal to different sources of authority or interpret Scripture differently?
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The Barnaba’ Split: A Comic Redemption of Acts 15
Barnabas: Paul, I’ve been thinking—we give John Mark another shot. The boy has potential. Paul: Potential? Barnabas, the last time we gave him “potential,” he ghosted us halfway to Pamphylia. I’ve seen more commitment from a fig tree. Barnabas: He was overwhelmed! It was his first mission trip. You try…
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Diaphoris: The Ecstatic Agony of Divine Glory
But this “oneness” isn’t static. It’s not a melting into indistinction. It’s a communion of distinction, a unity born of love through difference. The key lies not merely in perichoresis—the classic doctrine of the mutual indwelling of the Trinity—but in something more dynamic, more painful, more creative…
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The Zombie Apocalypse as the Need to Perform: A Theological Reflection
The word “apocalypse” means “unveiling.” The zombie apocalypse is an unveiling of our deepest fears—that we might become soulless, enslaved to external pressures, losing our humanity. But the true apocalypse is the revelation of Jesus Christ, who restores our humanity through His own self-giving.
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Caffinneyated America, Part IV (Finale): Emancipating Awakening
Were there people on both sides that might have agreed on a sustainable compromise to avoid [The Civil] War? What miracle would it take to make that happen?
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Caffinneyated America, Part II: Murdering Awakening
Would they break bread together? Could the men who called slavery a sin and the men who called it a God-ordained order kneel side by side before Christ? Could encommunication survive this?
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Cafinneyated America, Part I: Sustaining Awakening
The bread was on the table. The wine was in the cup. And no man—not Finney, not any elder, not any preacher—would say who was worthy. That was for Christ to decide.
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Redeeming Jezebel (An AI Dialogue)
Jezebel represents the ultimate feminine evil that I (like even the mighty Elijah) instinctively flee from in terror. What might it look like if I knew Christ well enough to not just confront, but redeem, that evil…
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How Sunday School Can KetchUp to Christ
“We do not need more perfect Christians. We need people willing to sit at the table with the broken. To listen. To hold space. To heal.”
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Sex 411A: Lecher v Scribe
Your honor, my client is innocent. He is just a naive part doing his best to unfold. Sexuality is an intrinsic aspect of maturity: it is literally the definition, in biological terms. He should be celebrated for his sexual explorations, not condemned.
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