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How Can We Say We Care About Souls If We Don’t Burn Heretics at the Stake?
Christians once believed that heresy could destroy a person. Whole groups of people, in fact. Now we congratulate ourselves for knowing better.
Oct 20
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Nobody Warned My Patients About Providence
Outside the hospital, I rarely met Calvinists. The trauma bay was apparently full of them.
Oct 13
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A Year of Barking into the Void
A thank you, an explanation, and one small request
Oct 5
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September 2026
I Think I Would Like Being Catholic. Still, I Remain Protestant.
Rome Offers A Certainty Protestantism Cannot. The Trouble Is Proving Christ Promised It.
Sep 28
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A Pantheon in the Bedroom
I met my first throuple while working as a hospital chaplain.
Sep 21
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When Scripture and Experience Disagree
My struggle to reconcile the biblical case for spiritual gifts with what I have seen practiced.
Sep 14
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What Counts as an Available Alternative?
A short follow-up to a recent post on homelessness, public camping, and the accusation of cruelty.
Sep 10
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Our God Is Stronger Than Your God
What if we stopped apologizing for Christ's victories?
Sep 7
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August 2026
You Don't Need to Learn to Love Yourself
The self-esteem gospel misdiagnosed the disease and prescribed more of it.
Aug 31
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When Christians Didn't Have Anxiety
What the Christian tradition knew about fear, guilt, temptation, and melancholy before everything became "anxiety."
Aug 24
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Crime Is Crime
A proposal for a new civic slogan as Vancouver turns misdemeanor laws into municipal suggestions.
Aug 19
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Good Answers And Bad Habits
How one of evangelicalism's best slogans became the answer to too many questions.
Aug 17
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