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2026-10-01T23:19:00-04:00

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I Asked AI to Preach a Sermon. Here’s What Worried Me

Last updated on: October 1, 2026 at 11:19 pm By Gil Rosado

AI and The Battle for Truth As a writer and creator of various artistic works, I often hear the laments of my fellow writing colleagues at how upset they are at the proliferation of AI and how it is fast supplanting creative writing at all levels. I also see a lot of blogs and chatter in the social media realm about the dangers of AI in the domain of religion and worship. And of course, most recently, we’ve all heard... Read more

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2026-07-31T22:07:07-04:00

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The God Particle Hidden in Art and Music

Last updated on: July 31, 2026 at 10:07 pm By Gil Rosado

In Search of The God Particle As a composer, writer and creator of visual poems, I frequently straddle the fence between the sounds and structures of music, language and visual images. I spent many years cultivating my education and understanding of the arts and eventually realized that the arts must really be thought of as interdisciplinary. Art is an open canvas that encompasses the entire creative world, a domain of skills and techniques. However, one thing is foundational to all... Read more

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2025-10-12T17:20:24-04:00

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Do You Believe In Planet Earth?

Last updated on: October 12, 2025 at 5:20 pm By Gil Rosado

Living on Secular Earth While believers acknowledge that Earth was created by God, it can sometimes be hard to maintain this belief when there is so much ungodliness in the world. Is it even possible to remain faithful in God when there is so much evil occurring on a global scale? It depends. Faithfulness requires a suspension of one’s secular perception and/or worldviews and the placing of trust in God. To that extent, one can indeed remain... Read more

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2025-10-05T16:30:27-04:00

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What is Hell? Part II

Last updated on: October 5, 2025 at 4:30 pm By Gil Rosado

In a prior article entitled “What is Your Version of Hell?“, I wrote about the treatments of Hell in the Sacred Texts. For Believers, it is common to cite scriptures on God’s created universe and all its natural properties and celestial bodies. Although tinged with a Biblical flavor, church goers and ministers sometimes dwell upon cosmological topics which include the stars, the planets and the infinite domains of time and space. Why? Perhaps it’s to better understand and/or explain... Read more

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2025-09-27T20:40:35-04:00

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What is Truth?

Last updated on: September 27, 2025 at 8:40 pm By Gil Rosado

Today, we hear a lot of talk about “What is the truth?” We’re bombarded daily by “fact-finding” emissaries all over the news media outlets ranting, raving and debating over last night’s latest spin on what I like to now call “ reality” news. The mainstream news is now akin to a reality show. We often question whether there are any real “truths” being offered. For Christians as well as Jews and Muslims, the concept of “Truth” becomes one of... Read more

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2024-04-28T18:59:25-04:00

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Can You Find God In Your Bookstore (Part V)

Last updated on: April 28, 2024 at 6:59 pm By Gil Rosado

In a prior article in this series where I spotlighted Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”, I wrote about a man’s obsession with fate and challenging the ways of God. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (RAM) we see a different yet Christian-inspired poem which depicts another thematic cycle. In RAM, we see a narrative poem/tale of a man seeking atonement for killing a defenseless bird (an Albatross). When we speak of atonement, we speak of the guilty, of... Read more

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2024-04-16T22:03:43-04:00

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The Right to Bear Arms vs God

Last updated on: April 16, 2024 at 10:03 pm By Gil Rosado

You’ve all seen the headlines haven’t you? It goes something like this. First, there is a mass shooting in some part of main street USA. People die. Children die. Always, always, children get caught in the shooter’s cross-hairs until the shooter is brought down or else, takes his own life. Then there is the aftermath. Mass shootings always bring the issue of gun control to the forefront. It’s like a nightmarish math formula really. First the child dies... Read more

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2024-04-06T19:34:52-04:00

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Can You Find God In Your Bookstore (Part IV)

Last updated on: April 6, 2024 at 7:34 pm By Gil Rosado

In this fourth installment, I explore a chapter within Fydor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” Chapter 4 of Book II entitled “The Grand Inquisitor” is an important “short story within a book” that all people, believers and non-believers should read. The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoevsky’s “tour-de-force” novel and it’s considered by many to be his best for its content. I mention this solely to differentiate the author’s style versus his content. Although Dostoevsky’s style can leave a bit to be... Read more

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2024-03-23T15:22:53-04:00

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Do You Recognize God In Your Bookstore? (Part III)

Last updated on: March 23, 2024 at 3:22 pm By Gil Rosado

In this third installment within this series, I tackle one of the most important and engaging novels of the early 21st century. Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, “The Life of Pi” was an astounding, bestselling success. The book eventually seeded a 2012 major motion picture release which provided a surprisingly good adaptation of Martel’s wonderful novel. There are 3 key themes to this novel. The Story of God is not unique to a subset or category of people. The main... Read more

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2024-03-10T17:22:26-04:00

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Do You Recognize God In Your Bookstore? (Part II)

Last updated on: March 10, 2024 at 5:22 pm By Gil Rosado

In the first article in this series, I wrote about “Moby Dick”, the story about a man’s arrogance and the challenge of the Whale “as God” that led to the entire crew’s downfall. With Paul Coelho’s “The Alchemist, we have a very different tale of a shepherd boy’s quest to find a treasure and yet finding life along the way. In Coelho’s enormously popular book, a repeating message about finding one’s “personal legend” or path drives the narrative forward. ... Read more

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