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October 01, 2025

Are the Dead in Christ Alive or Dead?

Apparently there are two senses in which you exist after your body ceases to function:...

July 2025

July 19, 2025

The Saint as Revenant: How Homecoming Hones Holy Hunger

If you could be taken instantaneously into the immediate, unfiltered presence of God, face to...

March 2025

March 17, 2025

Does Hell Drive the Lost Insane?

On those surprisingly frequent occasions when we imagine what Hell must be like, most of...

February 2025

February 10, 2025

Lambs as Soldiers? Christianity is Strange

I’m certainly not the first one to point out that Christianity is a faith that...

September 2024

September 16, 2024

Tristitia: The Christian Sin of Surrender

Tristitia is the Latin name for a sin, or a negative spiritual state, that is...

August 2024

August 25, 2024

Tragically, God Gives Us What We Want

We are all aware of the fact that God hardened the heart of Pharaoh when...

August 17, 2024

How Prince Charming Saved Me From Hell

It's a vexed question to be sure, but here's how I have come to envision...

July 2024

July 29, 2024

The Embittered Christian

On the one hand, Jesus tells us to pray that extreme trials and testings will...

March 2024

March 11, 2024

I’m The Greatest Threat To My Own Faith

It’s the long slog through the desert that is the most depressing and debilitating for...

February 2024

February 21, 2024

Necromancy & Idolatry: A Dialogue

Anson:  You do know, my friend, that a defining feature of ancient Canaanite religion was...

December 2023

December 05, 2023

God, Marriage, and Laurel & Hardy

There is one feature of the classic Laurel and Hardy films that I’ve never seen...

November 2023

November 14, 2023

How You Can Be Left Alone … Forever

There is a George MacDonald quote making its way around social media these days, from...

September 2023

September 11, 2023

Christ’s Promise of … Sadness?

There is a meme currently making its way around social media that sounds appealing –...

July 2023

July 24, 2023

A Long-Dead Frenchwoman Tells Us How To Nurse At God’s Bosom

G.K. Chesterton once wrote that a person who relied entirely on his own spiritual resources,...

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