Craig Geevarghese-Uffman

🧭Honor: Integrity as Resistance to Fragmentation Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented World

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🧭Honor: Integrity as Resistance to Fragmentation Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented World

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Honor—properly understood not as reputation but as integrity against fragmentation—has never been more essential in our political life.
In a culture of shamelessness and strategic compromise, maintaining wholeness between conviction and action becomes radical resistance.

Easter's Divine Paradox: Faith Amid Uncertainty & Strength in Vulnerability" Floating in God's Presence: An Easter Meditation on Divine Love

Easter's Divine Paradox: Faith Amid Uncertainty & Strength in Vulnerability"
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Most revealing quote: 'Redefine crucifixion exclusively as transactional atonement without ethical implications.'
What power fears most isn't disbelief but genuine belief. Full satirical directive: [https://www.commonlifepolitics.com/p/urgent-official-proclamation-emergency] 3/3

The directive's panicked response to 'unauthorized foot-washing ceremonies' and 'explicit passion readings' exposes the incompatibility between authentic Christianity and systems of domination. 2/3

The Theological-State Apparatus Responds: A Satire of Power's Panic
Today's 'Emergency Directive' for plantation preachers reveals power's fundamental terror: that people might actually believe the subversive message of a crucified God who stands with the marginalized.
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📊 Faith vs Certainty: Rethinking How We Know Truth in a Post-Truth Age Knowing and Being Known: Faith, Reason, and Doubt

3/3 Both Dominative Christianism and Providential Identitarianism miss this vision of participatory knowledge.

Full essay here: www.commonlifepolitics.com/p/faith-vs-c...

2/3 Augustine understood: "We know God better by not knowing." Knowledge as participated mystery rather than possessed certainty.

"I believe; help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24)

This paradox reveals what our epistemologies miss - knowing is relational, not merely propositional or experiential.

🧭Decline by Choice: Confronting the Theological Roots of American Tyranny The Theological Foundations of America's Constitutional Crisis

4/4 How might we recover the theological virtues that sustain our constitutional order? Read my full analysis in today's Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/commonli...

3/4 When we understand freedom as participation rather than domination, constitutional constraints become not limitations on freedom but what makes genuine freedom possible.

2/4 Madison's warning about "accumulation of all powers" takes on theological significance. Constitutional separation of powers reflects Christian understanding of human fallenness and need for constraints on power.

Constitutional Fidelity as a Theological Virtue
The Dispatch's recent editorial "Slouching Towards Tyranny" identifies concerning political trends, but the deeper issue is theological.1/3

🛠️Weekend Wisdom: Overaccepting Binary Thinking Welcome to this week's Weekend Wisdom, where I distill key insights from the week's explorations and provide practical ways to incorporate them into daily life.

open.substack.com/pub/commonli... 🧩 NEW WEEKEND WISDOM: "Overaccepting Binary Thinking"

In this week's Weekend Wisdom, I explore how we can move beyond the polarizing either/or frameworks that dominate our public discourse.

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🌱From Processed to Whole: Reclaiming Authenticity What my kitchen taught me about the journey toward an undivided life

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Rejecting the gospel of efficiency....

📊 Overaccepting Dominative Christianism: The Trinitarian Foundation of Christian Identity Trinity and identity

open.substack.com/pub/commonli... Chapter 2 of my project on "Overaccepting Dominative Christianism and Providential Identitarianism" explores the Trinitarian foundations of Christian identity in contrast to dominative religious mutations.

Practices for Truthfulness The foundation of authentic relationships with God and each other

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"The Ministry of Truth was unavailable, so we created the National Curriculum Cleansing Task Force – because teaching critical thinking might lead to questioning authority."https://open.substack.com/pub/commonlifepolitics/p/official-proclamation-formation-of?r=uazba&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Only by crossing these boundaries in our historical knowledge can we develop a more truthful vision of American identity.https://www.commonlifepolitics.com/p/beyond-the-mayflower-spanish-america?r=uazba

Beyond Empathy When Emotional Resonance Substitutes For Justice

open.substack.com/pub/commonli.... When Emotional Resonance Substitutes For Justice. The invitation is to a broader, more generous form of moral engagement. Check out my new post

The Historical Context of MAGA Christianism Roots of a Theological Mutation

The Historical Context of MAGA Christianism
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The Textbook That Lied How I Discovered America's Multiple Founding Peoples

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How I Discovered America's Multiple Founding Peoples

The Metrics That Matter Rethinking Progress at 65

open.substack.com/pub/commonli.... As a big birthday nears, I’m rethinking the numbers that guide my days and years.

When Leadership Vision Meets Democratic Values: The False Equivalence Between Business and Governance In my military, business, and ecclesial careers, I witnessed firsthand the power of bold leadership, transformative vision, and decisive action.

open.substack.com/pub/commonli... Process is just a much a matter of ethics as the ends we pursue.

To My Fellow Naval Academy Graduates and Other Veterans When we took our oath of office, we swore to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." That oath had no expiration date.

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This is my favorite example of the keystone cops now running the country

Spot on

Opinion | Most Trump Supporters Also Back Ukraine Our poll found that 69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin.

"69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin"

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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

Trump and Vance shame America in attack against Zelensky | Trudy Rubin The president and the vice president’s Putinesque tirade against the Ukrainian leader makes it clear they’re on Russia’s side.

"Either way, it’s as if Franklin Delano Roosevelt had showered slurs on Winston Churchill during the Blitz and praised Adolf Hitler"

-- The Philadelphia Inquirer's great foreign-affairs columnist Trudy Rubin, on what the hell just happened here www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...