War Losses

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Theodicy and the Problem of Evil

Matthew 2
¹⁷ Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
¹⁸ In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning:
  Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Half a Century of French-Ukrainian Friend-ship

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Taking Christ's Body Down From The Cross

A Soldier's Work Is Never Done!

Matthew 27
³⁵ And they crucified him: ⁵¹ and, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from top to bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; ⁵² and the graves were opened. ⁵⁴ Now when the centurion watching Jesus saw the earthquake, feared greatly, saying: Truly this was the Son of God!

Crime and Punishment

I could... shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.

Donald Trump, Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa, January 23, 2016.

Salome's Dance

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Gateway Drugs: How One Sin Leads To Another

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In the long journey of fasting, the first step is always selfdenial

A Song of Ice and Fire

1 Kings 19
¹¹ And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and mighty wind tore the mountains,
  and broke to pieces the rocks before the Lord: but the Lord was not in the wind;
  And after the wind, an earthquake: but the Lord was not in the earthquake;
¹² And after the earthquake, a fire: but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire,
  a still small voice: ¹³ And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle,
  and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave...

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Baltic Midsummer Traditions

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The Warm Season

The flaming fires of Pentecost officially mark the scorching summer heat.

Revelation 11

³ And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days. ⁵ And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies. ⁶ These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. ¹² And they ascended up to heaven. ¹³ And at the same hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake seven thousand men were slain: and the remnant were frightened, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Musically Ascending the Scales to Heaven

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Lifting Up Our Hearts ( And Voices ) For Ascension

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women

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The Modern Magdalene, Struggling With Her Calling





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The Medieval Magdalene, Embracing Her Vocation

Passion Week: a World of Pain and Suffering

The Passion of Unrequited Love

Lady Day

Desperate Ukrainian Housewives

Coming Out

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James Van † Der Beek

John 8:32

And ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall set you free.

Groundhog Day

I could... shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.

Donald Trump, Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa, January 23, 2016.

The New Normal

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Trump's America

I could... shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.

Donald Trump, Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa, January 23, 2016.

Words To Live Or Die By

The beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth.

The suburban women are under attack!

I want to protect the women of our country. I want to protect the women.
I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not, I'm going to protect them.

Is there any woman in this giant stadium who would like not to be protected ?
Is there any woman in this stadium that wants to be protected by the president ?

Donald Trump, Resch Center,
Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 30, 2024.

Solid Patristic Advice

Wherefore, a good Christian ought to beware of mathematicians, or
of anyone who impiously divines, especially of those speaking the truth.

Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Second Book,
Seventeenth Chapter, Thirty-Seventh Paragraph

Those impostors, then, whom they designate mathematicians, used
no sacrifices and invoked the aid of no spirit for their divinations.

Augustine, The Confessions,
Fourth Book, Third Chapter