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Continue reading →: Why Do We Continue?
“There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.” –Samwise Gamgee If you are reading this, you might be wondering why we keep trying with Conciliar Post. After all, blogging is far less popular than it was ten years ago. We have not become a podcast.…
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Continue reading →: How the Christ Defined the Christian
Jesus defined Christianity, not with attractive words like a salesman but in dictatorial and perhaps repulsive terms: “If anyone wants to follow Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and journey with Me.”1 Despite His clarity on the matter, we tend to describe Christianity as a…
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Continue reading →: The Old Testament in Order
Previously, I have reflected on why the New Testament appears in the order that is does and how considering different orders can better inform our engagement with Scripture. Of course, talking about the New Testament in this way raises the obvious question, “what about the Old Testament?” This article is…
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Continue reading →: Life After Life After Death
In what at least one person has referred to as, quote, “the best movie scene I’ve ever watched,” in this part of Avengers: Endgame, we see the Avengers assembling for their final battle. On its own, that would be cool enough. But this scene is especially poignant because many of…
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Continue reading →: The (Actual) Good Place
In this scene from The Good Place, the gang arrives at the Good Place and finds that it’s even better than they imagined it would be. Flying puppies, the energy you had when you were twelve, and the joy of meeting people you’ve always wanted to meet—I mean, who doesn’t…
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Continue reading →: Does Love Win?
When I was in high school and trying to figure out the whole following Jesus thing, I encountered the guy in this video. He was a young, up-and-coming pastor at a church a couple hours north of us, a guy who asked the kind of questions that I was asking…
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Continue reading →: He’s Not a Tame Lion
A theme throughout C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series is the idea that Aslan (the analog for Jesus in the series) is “not a tame lion.” This phrase generally conveys that Aslan (and by extension God) is not what we might expect or even want. Mr. Beaver, when asked if…
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Continue reading →: A Letter to My Granddaughter
Dear Granddaughter, Your life is ahead of you. Flashes of insight will come, but real understanding takes time. My hope is that you seriously consider the path contained in this letter. The greatest conquest of your life is to defeat the foe within–your ego–and to obtain union with God. It…
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