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  Nov 1, 2023

  The Lord is the best house cleaner

  No one knows how dark your heart is except you and no one knows how dark my heart is except me. The Bible says, “The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be” (Jeremiah 17:9-10, Message).

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  Oct 30, 2023

  Evil is in the eye of the beholder

  The current jaw-dropping atrocities being committed by Hamas have once again restarted the debate on evil and what it really is because, after all, “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” right? Actually, no.

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  Oct 27, 2023

  The ‘Gordean Knot’ of moral proportionality in the Middle East (part 2)

  Remember, Just War Theory was never intended to “justify” war. Instead, it tries to bring war under the sway of justice as understood by Christians and to ensure that war, when it does occur, is hedged about by limits that mitigate its barbarity. 

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  Oct 24, 2023

  Israel and Gaza: This isn't just political but spiritual

  Some reported seeing smoke in the air from the windows of the airplane. We were shaken up but were allowed to take off on time (30 minutes after the bombing began).

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  Oct 23, 2023

  The original nightmare

  They have an interesting term for it — a “sleep demon.”

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  Oct 20, 2023

  The ‘Gordean Knot’ of moral proportionality in the Middle East (part I)

  After Oct. 7, I wonder if that is still true, or whether we have crossed a threshold none of us should wish to be crossed.

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  Oct 16, 2023

  Supernatural atheism

  Why not consider the supernatural God of the Bible as a source for everything we know?

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  Oct 13, 2023

  The ethical bankruptcy of ‘moral equivalency’

  Those who claim a “moral equivalency” between the Hamas terrorists and the Israeli government betray either a lack of integrity or a seriously demagnetized moral compass.

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  Oct 11, 2023

  The intensifying tsunami of spiritual revival

  As a young secular journalist in the 1960s I witnessed and wrote about the impact of charismatic renewal upon the Catholic Church. It was transformative in many ways, opening the Church to a renewal of faith and commitment.

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  Oct 9, 2023

  The angry Christian man

  Chances are, if you’re reading this right now and you’re a man, you’re angry.