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When Doubt Becomes Dogma: A Response to Matthew Syed’s “We Should Put Less Faith in Religion and More in the Power of Doubt” Introduction: When Doubt Becomes Its Own Certainty Columnists who write about religion and politics rarely lack confidence. British sports columnist Matthew Syed is no exception. In a recent Sunday Times essay, he…
Preventable Deaths: A Nationwide Pattern of Criminal Alien Releases Gone Fatally Wrong An Investigative Report | March 2026 Introduction: A Crime That Did Not Have to Happen Just after 1:00 a.m. on a Thursday in March 2026, eighteen-year-old Sheridan Gorman was walking through a park near Loyola University in Chicago with a group of friends….
Sally Chase, Joseph Smith, and the Folk-Magic Roots of Early Mormonism ───────────────────────────── I. Introduction: Two Seekers in Upstate New York The upstate New York frontier of the early 1820s was a place of remarkable religious ferment. Campfire revivals competed with Methodist circuit riders, Baptist immersionists with Presbyterian schoolmen, and woven through all of it—quietly, insistently—was…
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 12:1–12 (ESV) In this sermon delivered at East Valley International Church in Gilbert, Arizona, Pastor Joey draws from Luke 12:1–12 to expose hypocrisy as the most dangerous spiritual pathology facing the contemporary church — more threatening, Jesus warns his disciples, than…
Introduction: The Theater of Democratic Decline Since President Trump’s return to office in January 2025, a cottage industry of dire predictions, alarmist reports, and sweeping pronouncements has emerged declaring American democracy dead, dying, or transformed overnight into an authoritarian state. Major media outlets feature specialists solemnly reporting that the United States has fallen from 20th…
Freemasonry, Joseph Smith, and the Hidden Architecture of Mormon Temple Ritual Introduction: A Brotherhood Within a Brotherhood On the night of March 15, 1842, a cold Illinois wind off the Mississippi cut through the streets of Nauvoo, Illinois — the ambitious, half-built city that Joseph Smith Jr. intended to be the crown jewel of his…
Google Gemini responds to my prompt: “From a modern ‘best use’ perspective, explain why the fonts for this church ad on Facebook are dated and represent a contextually inappropriate typeface choice, making this design feel amateurish, unprofessional, and reminiscent of the 90s/early 2000s.” You have a great eye for design, and your assessment is spot-on….
The Mormon Church’s $293 Billion Empire and The Question Nobody at Temple Square Wants to Answer An Investigative Exposé from a Traditional Christian Perspective Section One: Earthly Arms Hotel The majesty. The spectacle. The real estate footprint. Everything is over the top. Introducing the Mormon Church — formally known as The Church of Jesus Christ…
The Population Bomb That Never Exploded — And the Man Who Would Never Admit It Introduction: The Death of a Prophet Who Refused to Recant On March 15, 2026, Stanford University announced the passing of Paul Ralph Ehrlich at the age of ninety-three. He died of cancer — a cause of death noted with grim…
There is something simultaneously admirable and insufficient about Karen Kilby’s recent essay in Plough Quarterly, “It’s Not All Good, Man.” Published in the spring 2026 issue, the piece wrestles honestly with a reality that many theologians have preferred to aestheticize, rationalize, or deny: the Christian church in the Western world is shrinking, and that decline…