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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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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: 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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What Manner of "Spiritual-ness" Is This?
A primer on the difference between those who've come to faith and those who have assumed a faith.
JM Zabick
May 18, 20223 min read
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Go, Therefore, and Make … Leaders?
The leadership priority is becoming a vocational idol in the contemporary American church.
JM Zabick
Apr 26, 20223 min read
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Enough with the Eschatology!
I see the prioritization of End Times stuff in large portions of the church to be both frightening and recklessly inappropriate.
JM Zabick
Apr 14, 20222 min read
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Look What They've Done to Me!
My staunch opinions were grounded in assumptions about the alternatives, based in how they were represented by my tribe, my echo chamber.
JM Zabick
Oct 13, 202111 min read
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Could It Be the American Church Needs Some “Bashing”?
Facing complete irrelevance or total demise, the American Church is playing victim, again. It's not the time.
JM Zabick
Mar 12, 202110 min read
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