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2026-06-02T01:26:40-04:00

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Our Lady of Częstochowa, Part 1 – What is a Black Madonna?

Last updated on: June 2, 2026 at 1:26 am By Daniel Jean Perrier

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Poland's most visited shrine houses the Black Madonna of Poland part of medieval art genre of dark-skinned European Madonnas. Modern encounters with these icons prompt us to consider what skin tone means to Christian worshipers in the past and present. Read more

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2026-01-27T19:26:38-05:00

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Time Unbounded and the Lie of Temporality

Last updated on: January 27, 2026 at 7:26 pm By Daniel Jean Perrier

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To understand the present as present and history as history remains not just a mistake, but a lie. The separation is the illusion, the space Read more

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2025-12-15T22:59:10-05:00

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Chronic Pain and Sainthood

Last updated on: December 15, 2025 at 10:59 pm By Daniel Jean Perrier

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St. Lidwina found comfort in accepting her pain as Mary accepted God’s will, understanding herself to submit to it willingly for love of God. In this way, she reclaimed her pain as a voluntary act and offering—she rejected the idea of even being healed miraculously. Read more

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2025-12-15T23:00:36-05:00

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Who was St. George, Patron Saint of Palestinian Christians?

Last updated on: December 15, 2025 at 11:00 pm By Daniel Jean Perrier

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In this time of an intensified campaign against Palestinians since October 7th, 2023, the figure of St. George can provide a valuable symbol of the spiritual resilience and interfaith connection of Palestinians. Read more

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2025-03-28T21:04:22-04:00

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Debt Forgiveness is Biblical

Last updated on: March 28, 2025 at 9:04 pm By Daniel Jean Perrier

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In this recipe of necessary debt turned to lifelong burden, the institution calling itself the moral center of a Christian nation specifically fails to provide an avenue to release the debts it itself holds against its citizens. Read more

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2024-12-02T11:54:17-05:00

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Giving Tuesday: An Opportunity to Reflect

Last updated on: December 2, 2024 at 11:54 am By Daniel Jean Perrier

Whether involved with the official organization or not, the unofficial “holiday” serves as a day to turn gratitude into local giving. The feeling of gratitude is known to increase charitable giving. Strengthening community ties brings us one step toward the type of world that can erode a colonial mindset. Read more

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2024-08-27T20:16:06-04:00

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Kamala the Prosecutor vs. Trump the Felon

Last updated on: August 27, 2024 at 8:16 pm By Daniel Jean Perrier

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We are hurtling toward the 2024 election, and the lead-up has been unhinged at best. Regardless of what I think of Harris, Biden’s stepping aside has made space for a candidate who is both mentally competent and charismatic. With a new candidate comes a new strategy, and the Democrats have an easy narrative laid before them, one they have taken up: prosecutor Harris versus felon Trump. Harris has supercharged one of the go-to talking points of this election, Trump’s criminal history. But there is much more packed into this easy soundbite than Trump’s misdeeds, with implications that must be examined. Read more

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2024-07-21T16:05:47-04:00

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Psychedelic Christians: Magic Mushrooms and Mystics

Last updated on: July 21, 2024 at 4:05 pm By Daniel Jean Perrier

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The Apocalypse of John is a particularly vivid and often horrifying account of an eschatological vision. The author reports the visions as an account of his experience in exile on the island of Patmos. The account might be described as “psychedelic”, with the iconography of a “bad trip”. It has become a fun theory to attribute the texts to a similar experience. But is it any more than an interesting theory? Read more

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2024-07-07T21:14:56-04:00

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Israel’s Ecocide Against Palestine

Last updated on: July 7, 2024 at 9:14 pm By Daniel Jean Perrier

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As the destruction of Palestine and its people continues to run rampant, understanding ecocide and its operation in colonialism becomes ever more prescient. Two staple plants of Palestinian culture have been targeted by the Zionist regime for decades, eroding Palestinian culture and Palestinians’ economic health and autonomy. Destruction of orchards kept for thousands of years is part of a Zionist mission to eliminate evidence of Palestinian life and tending to the land in the area to support a narrative that the land was previously uninhabited, that existing peoples were simply transient, and that the establishment of a Jewish state in the area is a just reclamation of untended land. Read more

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2024-06-21T22:27:16-04:00

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Deadly Sins and Queer Pride

Last updated on: June 21, 2024 at 10:27 pm By Daniel Jean Perrier

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Pride is the greatest sin, or so we are told. It is one of the seven deadly sins, the straight path to hell. Can we slip ourselves from the loud self and mutual love in the concept of our pride, and that which we should avoid, that which sends us away from God and to sin? Read more

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