A personal announcement and what the Bible says about the coming year

What role does the Antichrist play in the Gog-Magog War?

an essay on circuit breakers, empty buckets, and the shame-show of social media

A quick little Advent message

A Pillar longread

In this subscriber-only bonus episode of The Pillar Podcast, Ed and JD gives their predictions for verdicts in the Vatican financial trial. Are you a paying subscriber? Add these bonus episodes to your feed by visiting pillarcatholic.com/listen on your phone and tapping “set up podcast” next to The Pillar Podcast.

What would Christianity be like if Mary Magdalene hadn't been hidden from view?

Word of the Week: NEAR

Dearest Family! Welcome to Letters from Love! How was everybody’s week? How did it feel, writing to yourself from Unconditional Love? And how does it feel, reading the letters that people are posting? I encourage you not only to read each other’s letters, but to reach out to one another if you feel moved by something someone has shared — as I keep finding myself doing.

Let's just make a thing

October's Field Notes Part 1: Update and An Exclusive Essay

Reimagining Advent :: Week Two

With the stir of May's correct predictions...today's drop was inevitable!

Pick a card for a message from your angels 🔮

No, but a new book says he is

Except in politics, where hate usually does the trick

the refusal to grasp this is a non-trivial amount of the problem

A fun Hanukah story

The Sun moves through Libra, Mercury into Libra then Scorpio, full moon in Aries, Venus into Virgo, Venus opposite Saturn, Mars into Scorpio, solar eclipse in Libra

Expect a very relationship focused week.

A Dalai Lama's Cat story

Africa Buddha

On Babies and Dreams

On the First Week of Advent

A Mother's Day Address

Share Wayfare With Someone You Love

Surprise! I bet you saw this one coming

In which it's important to remember that we don't know everything about each other

Die Vorbereitungsmaßnahmen zur Weltentrennung und ein erster Ausblick auf 2024 und 2025

Was erwartet uns in 2024? Eine große Reinung und viele Überraschungen. Für manche hellt es sich auf, für manche wir es düster.

My brother and I were shopping with my father at some department store. We were gleefully hiding in the center of those round clothing racks. We had planned to jump-scare our father whenever he came by. Unfortunately for us, he didn’t seem to be in the same section. After waiting for what felt like an eternity, we decided to modify our prank. We quietly snuck back out of the clothing rack and began to search the store for him.

For Christmas of my fifteenth year of life, I asked for a sword. Surprisingly, this was not an uncommon request for boys my age. Yes, friends, I am here to admit that I was amongst the ranks of such notable sword owners as Elon Musk or Ben Shapiro. However, my desire to own a sword had a spiritual element to it. At the time, my family was attending a Pentecostal church and I was raised to believe that soon Jesus would return. Nearly every Sunday, we were filled with the fear that, at any moment, Jesus might return.

Ken is biting my style.

Listen now (43 mins) | “I think what one of the things that's interesting to me is like when we think about what causes distress and a life that goes awry, there's so much attention to different..."

Notes on Libra Season, the Underworld, and more.

Aliza's thoughts on the two most mysterious, unusual, and elusive areas of the birth chart.

It is a fact that the Bible can never mean what it was not meant to mean! Yet, there has been a massive, concerted, unbiblical effort for many years to transform America from the Land of the Free to the Land of the Spree. It is a distinct effort to remove all Christian influence from America and replace it with the “anything goes” philosophy.

In the trenches of today's cultural battlefield, where truth is often held hostage by the whims of the zeitgeist, the Colliers' conjugal collapse is not merely tabloid fodder—it's a stark expose of a church culture skewed askew. Here we have Sam Collier, once celebrated as Hillsong Atlanta's first Black lead pastor, who ascended the ecclesiastical ladde…

An essay on Christian influencers, as well as a booklist + shout outs to some of my favorite people to follow online.

On Elizabeth and waiting

I make Christian Warrior Training and this newsletter free for everyone to strengthen and protect Christians everywhere. To support my work and help keep the lights on, consider a paid subscription if you are in a position to. On March 27, 2023, Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old woman (who identified as a man) and former student of the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee carried out a shooting at that school that resulted in the deaths of three nine-year-old children and three adults. Hale had sent a message to a friend shortly before the incident, which was described as "basically a suicide note"​​.

Preventing sexual abuse in churches is something we don't think we need, but we do.

The videos, articles, and podcasts trending this week on NEGEV – The Wide World of Judaism

And, I also admit: In Israel, it's the least of our worries.

The ordinary faithful are not expendable cannon fodder. They should go where their faith and families will be nourished.

Bishop Schneider's liturgical theology; a new setting of the "Tantum ergo"; a fantastic new book from Os Justi Press; and more!

A Response to Jon Leeman

Note: There’s a video and audio version of this article below! Goes for 15 minutes. Here I am, in the middle of Texas, among good Christian people, where American flags and “Vote Trump” signs are plentiful. As I sit here beside the beautiful Brazos River, I just now read prominent evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem’s article titled

(In which I bought the rights to Cal's college essay and share it with his permission)

An update on Advent and a sermon for your weekend