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Matt Willmott
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Just some schmoe thinking aloud.
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Beyond Beyond-Good-and-Evil
Ultimately, can we avoid the binaries? And should we?
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October 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The Field
Places where the veil becomes thin.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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"Against the Machine"
Postmortems of the Enlightenment, new models, and what we can learn from them.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Fundamentalism is Not Religion
And bad religion is not good religion.
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September 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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In a Perfect World . . .
Is the world "perfectible?" Are we forgetting?
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September 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The Problems That Can't Be Ignored
Is there a necessary Christianity?
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August 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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The Koan of Christ, Revisited
Further steps beyond a beguiling dream that easy answers are right at hand.
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August 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Are These the End Times?
Are ANY times the end times?
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August 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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What Do You Mean, "Crazy?"
The life philosophy that emerges from contemplating our utter contingency.
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August 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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"Talitha Koum"
One love from many angles.
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August 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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What About Jonah?
Do we actually need to figure out how to accept a dude inside a fish?
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July 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Doors to the Kingdom
On sources of help and the entryway to the path of Grace
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July 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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The Justification and Sanctification (Part 1 of ∞)
A story about a week of struggle, culminating in a shallow scoop of some deep ideas.
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July 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Falling Short
A meditation on missing the mark (in which is excerpted a somewhat more weighty meditation on missing the mark).
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July 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The Church Invisible
The Church visible/invisible, and the Gospel visible/invisible.
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June 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Superman, Help Us!
The thrills, spills, and the genuine pseudo-religion of modern mythmaking.
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June 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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"I Am Who You Say I Am"
What if our identity can come from a personal relationship with reality itself?
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June 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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On the Journey Out
How the NDE literature (and religious tradition) reflect the peculiarity of our day-to-day lives.
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June 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Kenosis in a Relational Universe
Thoughts about self-emptying and a personal God.
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June 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Isaiah 53
On the echoes of Messiah, Christ, "Christhood..."
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May 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Death and Life
Or, how to have an NDE without any literal D.
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May 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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A Good Fall Story
On the essential value of "lost paradise" narratives.
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May 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The Christian Yoga
Some thoughts about Christianity just as a spiritual design.
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May 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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The Yoke
Thoughts about will, agency, recent headlines, and the need to go to the mountain.
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April 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Crucified Hope
Thoughts on the cross, death, and new life. (Plus a funny/not-funny man in a boat.)
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April 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM