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This past month one of the books I read was the story Pilgrim Progress’s: A Journey from this World to the Next Delivered on the Similitude of a Dream. I had heard this story multiple times before — it’s almost impossible for any boy growing up in Christian home and attending a Sunday School at [...]

Though I am not Catholic (or any other denomination that ritualistically practices lent), I can certainly appreciate the idea behind the sacramental ritual that takes place during the season of Lent. I’m beginning to find the idea of setting aside a time each year essentially to mourn over the sin the carnal nature a worthwhile [...]

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird, but it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs initially. And you can’t go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. This [...]

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.
- George MacDonald, Lilith

There is a old saying, “The absence of sickness is not health.” As a cancer survivor I know [...]

“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.” – G.K. Chesterton
Somewhere in the time line of Christendom, we’ve picked up a bad habit. Where-as the [...]