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October 2025

October 10, 2025

Anthony Boyd is Innocent: The Extended Case

Preface Anthony Boyd is scheduled to be executed on October 23, 2025...making this document a...

October 07, 2025

“Why I March for Anthony Boyd” : Liturgical Free Verse

I march for Anthony Boydbecause death has become ordinaryin this countrybecause the state whispers it...

October 06, 2025

Modern Lynching in Alabama: On The Execution of Anthony Boyd

The Execution of Anthony Boyd : A Modern Lynching in Alabama The scheduled execution...

October 04, 2025

The Rhythm of Faith: The Explosion of the Realm of God

The Realm of God in Motion: The Rhythm of Faith Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time...

October 04, 2025

Practical Universalism: Pope Francis and Mercy in Action

All Scripture citations are from the New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE). Pope Francis’s papacy...

October 03, 2025

St. Esther Brown: The Greatest Death Penalty Abolitionist

Some lives are ordinary. Some lives are remarkable. Some lives are holy. The Life of...

October 02, 2025

Innocence Ignored: Save Lance Shockley

The Beginning of Injustice in the Case of Lance Shockley In Missouri, the execution chamber...

October 02, 2025

Anthony Boyd is God’s Test for Alabama

God's Test for Alabama Anthony Boyd is God's test for Alabama. Make no mistake, Anthony...

September 2025

September 30, 2025

Post-Execution Prophecy: The Voice of God Amidst Horror

Post-Execution Prophecy In the aftermath of an execution the loudest voices belong to governments, prison...

September 29, 2025

Ritualized Indifference: The Execution of Victor Tony Jones

Ritualized Indifference & The Illusion of Justice in Florida’s Death Chamber In just a few...

September 29, 2025

The Eternal Eucharist: Cosmic Reconciliation in Christ

Cosmic Reconciliation in Christ The Eucharist is the eternal reconciliation of all things. Bread and...

September 27, 2025

The True Executioners: Procedural Bars

Procedural Bars: The Hidden Executioners of the American Death Penalty What Are Procedural Bars? People...

September 27, 2025

No One Left Outside: On Lazarus and the Rich Man

On Luke 16:19–31: Lazarus and the Rich Man There was a wealthy man who lived...

September 24, 2025

Reconciliation of Love: Origins of Christian Universalism

The Story of Christian Universalism: Love That Refuses to Let Go Whispers of Universal Reconciliation...

September 23, 2025

Alabama’s Death Penalty & Anthony Boyd’s Explosive Filings

"Alabama's Death Penalty is Death By Lawlessness." Anthony Boyd, a prisoner on Alabama’s death row,...

September 23, 2025

Will Berry: Alabama’s Prophet of Forgiveness

Alabama’s Idol of Death Alabama knows death. From the lash of slavery to the ropes...

September 22, 2025

Anthony Boyd, Alabama & Execution: Notes on a Revolutionary

Anthony Boyd & The Death Penalty: The Last Revolutionary September 22, 2025 If you are...

September 20, 2025

Mammon or God: Empire or the Cross: Trump or Humanity

Mammon or God Luke 16:10–13 September 21, 2025Homily at St. Oscar Romero Old Catholic ChurchJesus...

September 20, 2025

Blaine Milam: Justice Is Not Just for Robert Roberson

Remembering Amora Bain Carson and the Role of Blaine Milam Amora Bain Carson. She was...

September 19, 2025

Richard Djerf and the Crucifixion of Christ in Arizona

On October 17, 2025, the state of Arizona will strap Richard Kenneth Djerf to a...

September 16, 2025

The Right to Celebrate Charlie Kirk’s Assassination. *Don’t.

You Have the Right to Celebrate Charlie Kirk’s Assassination. *Don't. Free Speech Protects the Words...

September 16, 2025

Save Anthony Boyd!: A Brother’s Plea for Mercy

Save Anthony Boyd *This essay originates from a conversation I had with Maurice Boyd about...

September 15, 2025

Nitrogen Execution Over My Head: Waiting with Anthony Boyd

A Nitrogen Execution Over My Head: Anthony Boyd’s Prophetic Cry "To have a nitrogen execution...

September 15, 2025

Situational Ethics: The Enemy of Liberation

The Call to Liberation Ethics is not a casual conversation…it is the terrain upon which...

September 14, 2025

Apokatastasis: Who Goes to Heaven? What a Stupid Question.

Apokatastasis. Note: Throughout this essay, Greek theological terms are provided with brief definitions in parentheses...

September 11, 2025

Saint Mychal Judge: The Eucharist in the Rubble of 9/11

God’s Canonization of Mychal Judge The Church doesn’t need to canonize Mychal Judge. God already...

September 10, 2025

Political Violence : The Anti-Gospel

Political Violence is the Enemy of Christ The Fundamental Betrayal of Political Violence Political violence...

September 10, 2025

Don’t You Dare Call the Shooting of Charlie Kirk Justified

The Shooting of Charlie Kirk: Evil. A Horrendous Act of Violence The news of Charlie...

September 09, 2025

Father Aleksandr Khmelyov: Modern Saint

Father Aleksandr Khmelyov: A Modern Witness Courage rarely looks glamorous. It doesn’t usually arrive in...

September 09, 2025

The Old Catholic Church: Traditional & Revolutionary

The Old Catholic Church The Old Catholic Church is fully Catholic, yet fiercely free. Born...