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👉There comes a time in our Christian lives when even praying feels dry. We find it hard to lift our souls to God and the burden in our hearts is too heavy for words.🎧

During such times, music can be the very language that carries our prayers to heaven. 🎶

#Beloved

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7 Ways God Brings Healing Through Music
Have you ever heard such a beautiful song that it made you cry? Here are the many ways that God can bring healing through music.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:06 AM
👉In early January 2026, ICE launched “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota’s Twin Cities and surrounding areas. The communities have been under siege and terrorized by ICE raids, kidnappings, violence, and murder. In response, Minnesota pastors and congregations...

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Clergy, Prepare For ICE: Guidance From Minnesota Pastors
Minnesota pastors urge U.S. clergy to prepare now for ICE incursions. Their wisdom and experience show us how.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Thank you Bruce Springsteen for using your talent to defend America’s democracy and speak out for the innocent murder victims of this regime’s brutality. (By the way, Mr Springsteen is a Catholic.)🎥

#Catholic
#TheBoss
#Minneapolis
#Democracy
#Springsteen
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The Boss Sings The Streets Of Minneapolis.
Thank you Bruce Springsteen for using your talent to defend America's democracy and speak out for the innocent murder victims of this regime's brutality.
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January 28, 2026 at 6:52 PM
​It began with a routine medical appointment – the kind many of us schedule out of obligation. My husband and I went for a full health assessment, including blood tests and diagnostic parameters. When the results arrived, they formed a comprehensive Health Portfolio.✍️
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The Eternal Check-up: How Is Your Spiritual Portfolio?
Living for 80 years vs. living for eternity. Which one are you training for? What does your spiritual health portfolio look like today?
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January 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
👉Katrina Lantos Swett can offer you a recipe for her homemade hot fudge sauce one minute and implore you to embrace the need for pluralistic, prosperous, and peaceful societies the next.

It’s not hard for this personable, brilliant woman, whose numerous awards...🏆

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Hot Fudge For Breakfast Freedom For All Katrina Lantos Swett
Katrina Lantos Swett blends family legacy, faith, and fearless advocacy—shaping global human rights and religious freedom with warmth, conviction, and clarity.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:54 PM
The tension between the sacred nature of life and the importance of defending oneself, family, or nation has probably existed since the beginning of time. If life is sacred, then shouldn’t it be defended?🔫 And if there is a God who created all life, then wouldn’t...
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What Do Holy Texts Say About Guns Violence And Self-Defense
What do holy texts say about violence, guns, and life? This article explores scriptural views across major world religions.
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January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
👉Okay, let’s clarify a few things about Critical Theory, a topic I have written on for some time now (see here, here, here,and especially here). Since some have tried to respond to my articles by articulating what they believe to be a kind of Critical...👀

#Theory

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Moral Combat: Critical Theory Versus Christianity
Critical Theory still haunts the West, and our churches. But there is NO Christian version of it. Here is a short summary why.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:46 PM
👉Most religions have their own version of a creation story, designed to explain the origin of this earth and the purpose of life. Part of that creation account is often a narrative about the “first humans.” Whether you come from a tradition that speaks of Adam...🍏

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What Do Religions Teach About Immigrants And Foreigners
What do world religions say about immigrants? Explore scriptural views on welcoming outsiders across faith traditions.
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January 26, 2026 at 9:53 PM
🪄When I was making predictions about the future of the Pagan movement 10 – 15 years ago, for the most part, I was trying to project 50 years or more into the future. It’s way too early to say what I got right and what I got wrong.

I still think we’re in an era...👀

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Paganism In An Era Of Christian Nationalism
Our predictions for the future of Paganism have always carried an unstated assumption: that we would be living in a multicultural and multireligious society. And that’s looking increasingly unlikely i...
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January 26, 2026 at 6:18 PM
👉This is an excerpt from the book I co-wrote with Darius Gray, called Last Mile of the Way. Several people wanted to know the history of events in the 1970s regarding the LDS church and its popular activity: Cultural Hall Basketball. “Aidan” is Darius’s middle...
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Church Ball And The Genesis Team
This is an excerpt from the book I co-wrote with Darius Gray, called Last Mile of the Way. Several people wanted to know this history of events in the The Genesis team lost, but not on the court. The ...
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January 26, 2026 at 4:03 PM
👉It is famously (or perhaps infamously) known as Hitchens’ Razor. “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” As a simplified or condensed version of the epistemological principle of Justified True Belief, Hitchens’ Razor is...👀

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Hitchens' Razor. Catholicism. God.
Hitchens' Razor is used to shut down religious claims. This essay will show that atheists' use of Hitchens Razor is intellectually lazy.
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January 26, 2026 at 1:18 PM
👉Recently, three highly influential American cardinals released a joint statement titled Charting a Moral Vision of American Foreign Policy, calling out U.S. foreign policy. The statement rightly appeals to Catholic moral language and affirms the Church’s...✝️

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Cardinal Issue: Selective Urgency & Problematic Credibility
Recently, three highly influential American cardinals released a joint statement titled Charting a Moral Vision of American Foreign Policy, calling out
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January 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
When John the Baptist stood in the wilderness, his voice cut through the dust and fear of his time. He spoke a phrase so dangerous that it cost him his freedom…”Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” That wasn’t just a religious slogan…it was a declaration...✍️
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Alex Pretti Of Minnesota: Prophet Of A New World
Alex Pretti was murdered during an ICE raid on January 24. This essay challenges readers to give your life for justice just like Alex did.
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January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
👉You end up in unexpected places as a professor. Recently, a colleague asked me to participate in a discussion panel for students on the topic of Christianity and conspiracy theories.

Even though conspiracy theories aren’t really my “thing,” I figured I would...😱
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Move Over, Evangelicals! Charismatics & Conspiracy Theories
You end up in unexpected places as a professor. Recently, a colleague asked me to participate in a discussion panel for students on the topic of
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January 23, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Fundamentalism is a problem, not just for Christianity, not just for religion, but for humanity. While the term was originally developed by Christians, it has been used to represent a certain kind of mindset, one which is found not only in Christianity...

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From Fear To Liberation: Challenging Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism presents itself as pure, and everyone else, not pure, and this is one way it leads to violence.
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January 23, 2026 at 6:52 PM
👉 Religion has historically kept the truth from people and sat on its ivory throne high above the people and used its interpretation of scriptures to rule the masses. Religion is nothing more than man creating God in his own image, creating a god that can be...

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Are You In A Religion Or A Relationship?
Explore the profound difference between "going to church" and truly "being the church." Benjamin Raven Pressley breaks down why a personal relationship with God transcends religious rules, explains th...
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January 23, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Writing to the Ephesian church from a Roman prison around AD 60-63, he encouraged this growing church community by calling for and modeling intercessory prayer. #leadaquietlife

A blog post on @patheos.com

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More Than High Fives: 10 Prayers For The Local Church
More Than High Fives: 10 Prayers for the Local Church. Discover how intercessory prayer creates lasting community beyond Sunday gatherings.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:21 AM
👉If you grew up in the evangelical terrordome, you were probably told that apocalyptic texts are God’s cosmic evacuation plan — a divine Uber for the righteous, scheduled to arrive right before things get inconvenient. Matthew 24 becomes a weather alert.
#GodsStorm
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Apocalypse As Protest, Not Prediction
Apocalyptic texts were never divine escape plans—they were ancient critiques of corrupt religion and political power. Here’s why Matthew 24 still exposes today’s fear-driven, end-times obsession and h...
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January 23, 2026 at 2:27 AM
👉Philippians 4:13 is one of the most quoted verses in the Bible: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” This verse shows up everywhere: on coffee mugs, t-shirts, graduation cards and social media captions. Philippians 4:13 has become associated...

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Philippians 4:13 In Context: What It Really Means
Philippians 4:13 is often misunderstood. Discover what “I can do all things” truly means in its proper biblical context.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:15 PM
👉 Not all modern Bibles are the same. The Roman Catholic Bible contains 73 books; the Greek and Russian Orthodox Bible contains 79 books; the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible contains 81 books; the Protestant Bible contains 66 books. Except where noted, we will be...

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How To Read The Bible: 10 Methods For Every Type Of Reader
The Holy Bible remains the most popular and most important book in the world. Author's note:  Not all modern Bibles are the same.  The Roman Catholic From devotional reading and Lectio Divina to histo...
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January 22, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Friends, I just wrote a column on @patheos.com about how grace meets us in the darkness of our own exhaustion:

“𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬.”

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The Door That Would Not Hold
A weary Jesus seeks a closed door and quiet, but a desperate mother breaks through. Explore neurodivergence, kenosis, and grace as presence that remains when capacity is frayed.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:22 PM
👉One of the great things about the Bible📕 is that we can “grab onto” certain verses or passages. Nearly every believer has a “favorite verse” (if not more). But the Bible is not simply a list of disconnected adages (other than perhaps the book of Proverbs).
#Bible
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What "All Things" Can We Do Through Christ?
What does "all things" mean in Philippians 4:13? Does Paul mean that we can do anything, or anything that God calls us to do?>
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January 21, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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My latest @patheos.com piece based on the new 10-year study of the Latin American religious landscape by Pew Research for which I was an academic consultant
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#AcademicSky #LatinAmerica #Catholic #Religion
Ongoing Catholic Decline In Latin America Under Pope Francis
For more than five centuries, Catholicism has been the civilizational grammar of Latin America. From Andean pilgrimage routes to urban neighborhood
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January 21, 2026 at 3:58 PM
👉"People who support the murder of Renee Good don’t have any business at the Walk for Life. ☮️

Those who support Trump threatening a world war because the Nobel Committee didn’t give him a Nobel Peace Prize probably belong in a mental ward, but they ALSO don’t..."👀

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People Who Support Murder Don't Belong At The Walk For Life
People who support the murder of Renee Good don’t have any business at the Walk for Life.  Those who support Trump threatening a world war because the
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January 21, 2026 at 12:55 AM
This week, we’re reflecting on familiar passages that are often misunderstood or misapplied. Yesterday, we looked at Philippians 4:13: “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me” (What “All Things” Can We Do Through Christ?)

Today, we’re looking at Jesus’...
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"Love Your Enemy" - What Does That Look Like In Real Life?
In Matthew 5:44, Jesus tells us to "Love your enemy." But what does that look like in today's world? Who is our "enemy?" How do we love them?
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January 20, 2026 at 11:12 PM