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My friend wasn’t supposed to die

A woman dressed in black is shown with a hand on a casket and holding a bouquet of white flowers.

“Do you know why people get together at Christmas? Because every time they do it might be the last time. Every Christmas is last Christmas.” -from Dr. Who 253, “Last Christmas,” written by Steven …

Image shows a man sleeping in the rough on an outdoor bench with a vibrant angelic scene behind him.

You’re not swearing when you say it’s been a Hell of a year. You put it down on paper, and it doesn’t look like much. But things add up. Things bleed you, leave you weak. …

Petra's This Means War! album cover is shown.

The contemporary Christian rock group Petra dedicated an entire album to the theme of spiritual warfare when they released This Means War in 1987. With a title track that channeled John Milton’s Paradise Lost in …

The creation of Adam Fresco in the Sistine Chapel is shown with Adam wearing a surgical mask.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, …

a puffy red heart toy is in the cupped hands of a young child

For over a decade, the United States of America was a dry nation. The Volstead Act was a nationwide constitutional ban on alcohol in all its forms, and while statistically, the consumption of alcohol did …

Mike Johnson is shown sitting in a chamber room.

I just saw the news that Mike Johnson from Louisiana was elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives. As he became the leading contender some of my friends began a group chat about it. …

People are shown in low light walking away from the camera on a forest trail.

There’s a funny thing about living with chronic pain. Eventually, you get used to it. I don’t mean that it goes away. I don’t mean that it no longer hurts. But there comes a point …

A simple line cartoon shows an ex-vangelical person chained at the ankle to a huge ball labeled evangelical.

Martin Luther stood in peril of his earthly life and possibly his eternal soul. The energetic Wittenberg firebrand challenged more than he realized when he issued debating points to the popular indulgence seller Johann Tetzel. …

The word "culture" is written on a small wood framed chalk board with a pair of glasses in the foreground and a red notebook with a black pen set on top off to the left.

Scot Loyd wrote a provocative piece It seems good to the Holy Ghost: A defense of progressive Christianity here on Faith on View. A reader who I know in real life asked a good question …

A person's hands are shown holding a white sign up with the words "Confront your racism" written on it.

Social media is fraught with challenges not the least of which is racism. I admit that over the last few years, I have become less active on social media—part of the reason is the growth …