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April 2025

Why Sunday is the new (Christian) sabbath
Why has the church, from the book of Acts onward, always rested and worshiped on the first day of the week, rather than the seventh?
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The symbolism of salt
Salt is the earthy equivalent of fire; hence Deuteronomy describes God cursing the land in terms of his burning it “with sulfur and salt…like the…
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Cretanous hogs and AI slop
AI slop follows the same pattern as Jewish fables in Titus 1.
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Against the literal-grammatical-historical method
An example from Judges 3 of how reading the Bible like a textbook turns many of its elements into meaningless noise.
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March 2025

Clearly correcting Catholic confusion
If scripture teaches us how to think, as well as what to think, then it should shape our minds to better judge its own place in the hierarchy of knowing…
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Re-enchantment is not about restoring a paranormal worldview
It is about re-learning the art of biblical meaning-making: applying biblical hermeneutics to discern and integrate the meaning in all things.
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Talky Bnonnsense #14: Tallish tales of St. David of Wales
Smokey regales us with the legendary embellishments around the patron saint of Wales — and makes a rather interesting point about how he reframed the…
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What to do if your house is haunted
A brief primer, with fewer explanations than are probably warranted or necessary, but one very interesting anecdote.
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Knowledge as integration into Christ
Toward a sacramental doctrine of knowledge.
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February 2025

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