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Coyote Witness
An Introductory Vignette “Likewise, when we too were children, we were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world…” (Galatians 4:3). The sunrise in the Autonomous Municipality of Witness was met with a mixture of colorful, explosive lights stirring the local populace out of bed and disturbing those who had no need for…
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The Religion of the Slavophiles
Slavophiles, Westernizers, and the East-West Dichotomy There are few civilizational and cultural gulfs quite like the divide between Russia and the West. It has remained a source of polemical rhetoric and hopeful visions of reunification in recent decades, but the genesis of the East-West divergence spans centuries, profoundly emerging in the wake of the Petrine…
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Where is our Mind?
Our Great War’s a Spiritual War During Lent I attempted to write about demons and the origins of evil with the larger project tracing sin and demonic activity through the early chapters of Genesis, but the research revealed how soul-draining it is to dwell in the demonic realm. It weighs to the spirit. While I…
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The Night is Far Spent pt. ii
A rant, the fruits of fracture, and unholy patterns My capstone course for my history degree, historiography, is making me realize how abstract and nonessential much of what passes as academically rigorous is essentially, myth-making. Myth in this case means a narrative construction supported by meaningful frameworks and prior commitments. Not only that, but…
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Mysticism, Mission, and Monsters
Enoch, Bertrand Russell, and the consequences of reductionism “Imagine that there are three powerful and mighty giants of the Philistines, upon whom depends the whole hostile army of the demonic Holofernes (cf. Judith 2:4). When these three have been overthrown and slain, all the power of the demons is fatally weakened. These three giants are…
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Hidden Martyrdom: The Furnace of Prayer
Prayer, pastoral care, and perfection “Make the following a rule—first of all, anticipate trouble at every moment and when it comes encounter it as something expected. Secondly, when something happens that conflicts with you will and is on the point of irritating and upsetting you, hasten to bring your attention into your heart and strive…
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