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An Incestuous Relationship with Truth
This social reality is the intellectual crisis of our day. What could pose more of a threat than the horizon of sheer ignorance?
JM Zabick
Mar 96 min read
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Groundhog Day as a Sketch of the Christian Life
A 1993 film with Murray and MacDowell offers a powerful metaphor for pursuing our telos as God's creation.
JM Zabick
Feb 279 min read
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Considerations for the Voting Christian
Cautions for fellow believers disheartened by the folly of this election season, particularly the antics of so many American Christians.
JM Zabick
Nov 2, 20244 min read
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The Myth of the Un-Qualified "Called"
The idea has long descended the merit it may once offered. It now resides in the swirl of contemporary Christian nonsense.
JM Zabick
Mar 27, 20243 min read
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Mimicking (in the Hopes of Manufacturing) the Sacred
We can blame falling away on the siren song of "the world," but the more likely culprit is that folks are simply wisening up to the façade.
JM Zabick
Aug 12, 20234 min read
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How Can I Understand Unless Someone Guides Me?
Let's identify and re-evaluate our teaching authorities in the spirit of Acts 8.
JM Zabick
Apr 27, 20235 min read
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Re-Assessing Saint Thomas: A Process Model for Authentic Faith
Reconsidering the "doubting" Apostle, based in empathy and understanding for the strength he demonstrated for coming to faith.
JM Zabick
Apr 14, 20238 min read
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Own Your Theology Proper!
Your Devotion, Spirituality, and/or Theology Will Never Rise above the Starting Point of Your Concept of God.
JM Zabick
Mar 25, 20233 min read
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Why NOT Observe Lent?
Approaching Lent as a Process of Spiritual Preparation for the "Bright Sadness" of Holy Week
JM Zabick
Feb 22, 20237 min read
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Revival, Reckoning, or Something Greater?
Younger evangelicals are not “down” with the attractional church their Gen X parents and leaders are hell bent handing on to them.
JM Zabick
Feb 21, 202313 min read
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My Real Problem with the "Western" Church
The battle against Penal Substitutionary Atonement is yielding needless collateral damage.
JM Zabick
Jan 25, 202314 min read
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A Journey Home (5): Turning the Corner—Evangelical Deconstruction Yields a Catholic Re-Awakening
In the bareness of my completely leveled religious landscape, I beheld something long believed beyond me—Roman Catholicism.
JM Zabick
Oct 13, 202219 min read
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From Revival to Religion—An Evangelical Deconstruction
I accepted the yearning had developed into a call. I would return to the Catholic Church
JM Zabick
Oct 5, 202216 min read
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A Journey Home (3): From Resistance to Revival—The Early Evangelical Years
Finding Community in a Warren Assembly of God & Meeting God at a Pensacola Revival
JM Zabick
Aug 25, 202223 min read
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A Journey Home (2): From Catholic Roots to the Evangelical World
My love for God is forged in Catholicism. And a lifelong attraction to his presence, found only in this expression of faith, has endured.
JM Zabick
Jul 24, 202215 min read
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Are We Really ALL Theologians?
Theological uprising is needed if the American church is going to welcome Reformation 2.0. But don't just take the title, BECOME THE THING!
JM Zabick
Jul 14, 20229 min read
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Reformation 2.0
Catholicism has been reforming. Is Protestant evangelicalism willing to meet them in the effort toward a world church Reformation?
JM Zabick
Jul 6, 202216 min read
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The Self-Directed Church
Both society and the church are experiencing an erosion of trust and increasing division, because both are playing the same game.
Nathan Hackman
Jun 29, 202214 min read
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Reforming the Reformation
If the church of tomorrow is to become the envisioned "world church" it must embrace the totality of humanity as God's masterpiece.
Geoffrey Bruschi
Jun 22, 202211 min read
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A Journey Home: An Introduction to My Tale of Spiritual Homecoming
Part one in a set of entries chronicling my return to Roman Catholicism
JM Zabick
May 31, 20225 min read
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