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Just some schmoe thinking aloud.

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What Do You Mean, "Crazy?" The life philosophy that emerges from contemplating our utter contingency.

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10.08.2025 13:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Talitha Koum" One love from many angles.
03.08.2025 12:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What About Jonah? Do we actually need to figure out how to accept a dude inside a fish?
27.07.2025 12:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Doors to the Kingdom On sources of help and the entryway to the path of Grace
20.07.2025 11:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Justification and Sanctification (Part 1 of ∞) A story about a week of struggle, culminating in a shallow scoop of some deep ideas.
13.07.2025 13:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Falling Short A meditation on missing the mark (in which is excerpted a somewhat more weighty meditation on missing the mark).
06.07.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Church Invisible The Church visible/invisible, and the Gospel visible/invisible.
29.06.2025 11:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Superman, Help Us! The thrills, spills, and the genuine pseudo-religion of modern mythmaking.
22.06.2025 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"I Am Who You Say I Am" What if our identity can come from a personal relationship with reality itself?
15.06.2025 13:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On the Journey Out How the NDE literature (and religious tradition) reflect the peculiarity of our day-to-day lives.
08.06.2025 15:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kenosis in a Relational Universe Thoughts about self-emptying and a personal God.
01.06.2025 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Isaiah 53 On the echoes of Messiah, Christ, "Christhood..."
25.05.2025 11:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Death and Life Or, how to have an NDE without any literal D.
18.05.2025 12:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Good Fall Story On the essential value of "lost paradise" narratives.
11.05.2025 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Christian Yoga Some thoughts about Christianity just as a spiritual design.
05.05.2025 01:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Yoke Thoughts about will, agency, recent headlines, and the need to go to the mountain.
27.04.2025 13:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Crucified Hope Thoughts on the cross, death, and new life. (Plus a funny/not-funny man in a boat.)
20.04.2025 11:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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God's Peace, Human Madness, and Grace Pull background ideas into the foreground; surrender.
13.04.2025 12:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Maybe This IS Who We Are Maybe the "American Dream" is the cause? And maybe we're supposed to be something else?
06.04.2025 12:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Religion for Xenomorphs Does the strongest religion require a marketplace of interacting ideas?
30.03.2025 03:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Approach Or, why *not* a personal God?
25.03.2025 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Place for the Ignorant Some thoughts on the need for a dignity of weakness.
16.03.2025 12:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Nation of Priests In the Book of Exodus, God helps Moses lead the Israelites out of Egypt, and in the wilderness God tells Moses that the Israelites are to become God’s holy people, a nation of priests.
09.03.2025 05:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jesus the Impudent Sovereignty and surrender are linked.
02.03.2025 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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American Social Crisis in One Film Scene My current favorite scene from the film, "The Graduate"

(It's not the scene that you think.)

16.02.2025 14:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Defense of Nations Nationalism, patriotism, and the human social "shimmer."

Some thoughts the "bad cult" and the possible "good cult" of national identity . . .

09.02.2025 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Above All, Perspicacity Four-level practice for the fourth turning.
04.02.2025 04:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A New Infrastructure Bill A fugue through recent events, macro and micro.
27.01.2025 03:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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