A Good Look at an Old Evil | The title of this column plays off my first book, A Good Look at Evil. There I revisited some of the main...| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
The Fork in the Road | A realization visited me the other day. It had to do with lost friendships. I’d always pictured these...| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
The Story | “The crucial thing is the story.” That is what I claim in A Good Look at Evil, my book which holds that the person who...| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
Reincarnation: Anne Frank and Me | Some years back I read a book with the title, And the Wolves Howled: Fragments of Two Lifetimes...| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
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 those gathering having just been resurrected from the dead. Five years before this moment in the MCU, half of the universe was snapped from existence. The post Life After Life After Death appeared first on Con...| Conciliar Post
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 want to end up in a place like that? But what’s the Good Place actually like? Is it like this? Or is it different somehow? The post The (Actual) Good Place appeared first on Conciliar Post.| Conciliar Post
At one point in The Good Place, Eleanor and the gang find themselves in the Medium Place. Now if we think of the Bad Place as more-or-less hell and the Good Place as more-or-less heaven, then the Medium Place is whatever lies in between. It’s neither good nor bad—it just kind of is, it just exists. And while in The Good Place the Medium Place is created for one, precisely down-the-middle person who deserved neither The post The Medium Place appeared first on Conciliar Post.| Conciliar Post
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 and gave answers that I was able to understand. He helped a lot of my friends think about what it meant to follow Jesus. And The post Does Love Win? appeared first on Conciliar Post.| Conciliar Post
The Ancient Egyptians held a deep-seated belief in the afterlife, and their spirituality and mythology… The post The Indestructibles and the Ancient Egyptian Journey to the Afterlife appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
The vast and impossibly ancient necropolis in Saqqara in the Egyptian desert is filled with… The post Trendsetter: Djoser and the First Pyramid in Egypt appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
The stunning Mold Gold Cape is from a forgotten time, hidden in a grave at the heart of the Hill of the Goblins. But who was buried there in such finery?| Historic Mysteries
According to Catholic doctrine, good people get into heaven. So, where were the good people before Heaven, and Christianity, was a thing? They were in Limbo.| Historic Mysteries
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Price of Business Digital Network has a new series of outstanding commentaries from thought leaders. This is one in that series. Brownell Landrum| USA Daily Standard
Luke 16 opens with an interesting story Jesus told of a steward who wasn’t doing his job. He wasted his master’s goods says the passage. His inattentiveness was discovered and his employer was ready to fire the man. This served as a wakeup call for the steward. He examined himself – perhaps for the first […]| GGWO Church Baltimore
What Is Truth? | The question, famously put to Jesus by Pontius Pilate, was prompted by Jesus’ self-report that he had come to bear witness...| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
A Writer's Conscience | I just finished reading – actually skimming – what I’m tempted to name as the worst book in the history of the...| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
Most Christians don’t feel like they need an answer to the question, “what is salvation?” For them, the answer is simple: getting to go to…| Rival Nations
“Say no goodbyes to those we love, Though they have passed from view. Our mortal eyes seem not to see The truth that our hearts do. Love is of the spirit. It exists beyond …| Conscious Companion®
If you thought the weather was a dull talking point before, the hallway of small talk just got a lot more narrow, friend.| Man Enough
