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Countering Challenges to Christian Platonic Cross-Sex Friendships: Challenge 3

Image Credit: Media from Wix In this post, we will deal with the third listed challenge for platonic cross-sex friendships (and, therefore, for Christian platonic cross-sex friendships) on Wikipedia's "Cross-sex friendship" page (accessed November 24-25, 2025). Again, here is the screenshotted image of the page as it was when I accessed it: The third challenge is this: "Dealing with the issue of relationship equality within a cultural context of gender inequality." In other

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Countering Challenges to Christian Platonic Cross-Sex Friendships: Challenge 2

Image Credit: Media from Wix In this post, I will attempt to articulate a Bible-based solution to the second challenge to platonic cross-sex friendships based off that screenshotted picture of Wikipedia's "Cross-sex friendship" page (accessed November 24-25, 2025) I referenced in my previous post. Here is that picture: While the aforementioned challenges were brought up in the context of cross-sex friendships in general, as I also addressed in my preceding post, I will

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Dec 103 min read

Countering Challenges to Christian Platonic Cross-Sex Friendships: Introduction and the First Challenge

Image Credit: Media from Wix One of my major goals is to facilitate sibling-like friendships between Christian men and women who are not married to each other. While I want to do this, I also want to do it with the primary goal of being a means of God realizing the spiritual unity of love He calls all His Son's people to, which unity will be actualized by His Spirit. So, to that end, I will dedicate my next blog posts (including this one) to identifying challenges to such f

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Dec 32 min read

Coming Up with a Term for Christian Platonic Cross-Sex Friendships

Image Credit: Media from Wix This post will be short, but it will accomplish a goal of mine that I will elaborate more on in future posts, Lord willing. That goal is this: coming up with a one-word term for Christian platonic cross-sex friendships. Along with the fact that a one-word term is not as wordy, such a brief way of referring to such Christian friendships will be extremely helpful for the movement that I pray the Holy Spirit will ignite. Anyway, let's begin! So, wh

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Nov 261 min read

Conversion as a Revolution in the Heart: An Extended Metaphor

Image Credit: Media from Wix A man's heart is a country. Its ruler is Satan, with Self as the Devil's vice-regent. Sin is its government, through which Satan and Self reign. Conversion is its revolution. Repentance is the overthrow of Satan and Self. Faith is Jesus resuming His rightful throne. The conflict between the Spirit and the flesh is the Lord sweeping away the remnants of the old regime. Christ's Second Coming is the final mop-up. The eternal state is the golden and

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Nov 191 min read

Christian Philosophy of Comedy: Sketch Comedy

Image Credit: Media from Wix In our search for comedic genres to use to glorify God, we now come across "sketch comedy." Sketch comedy "refers to short comedic scenes or vignettes... usually between 1 to 10 minutes long" [1]. This definition is partially circular, so, to slightly reword it, sketch comedy consists of scenes and vignettes designed to make their viewers laugh. So, how can Christians use sketch comedy to glorify God? As with the other kinds of comedy we've cov

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Nov 121 min read

Christian Philosophy of Comedy: High Comedy

Image Credit: Media from Wix High comedy "typically uses satirical wit in the context of upper-class societies" [1]. In other words, high comedy is a form of comedy wherein the comedian satirizes things in the societies of a society's (forgive the double-use of the word "society") classes. So, by 1) applying the ultimate principle of Christian comedy (namely, making people laugh in such a way where God is glorified) and 2) filtering that principle through our definition of h

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Nov 52 min read

Learning How To Write Songs From God's Word

Image Credit: Media from Wix It's my opinion that believers can use God's Word to learn "secular" skills. One of these skills, as this post's title states, is songwriting. Rather than present a step-by-step process here for how Christians can use the Bible to learn songwriting, I want to briefly present a principle for how this may (emphasis on "may") work: remember how 2 Corinthians 3:18 says that believers, when they behold, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are chang

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Oct 291 min read

A Praise to God for Sending His Son

Image Credit: Media from Wix Sadness and hopelessness was my lot. I was a hater of the Lord, and so the wrath of His justice ever hovered over me. As an evil man, God was working all things toward my eternal destruction, which I deserved for my countless crimes against Him, the sole Good One and the Eternal Creator and Lord of all. But then, o God, without my even pleading for mercy... You sent Your Son into this world as a Man through a virgin's womb, without sin To live a f

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Oct 211 min read

Christian Philosophy of Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy

Image Credit: Media from Wix According to the Merriam-Webster website, "stand-up" (referring to stand-up comedy) means "of, relating to, performing, or being a monologue of jokes, gags, or satirical comments delivered usually while standing alone on a stage or in front of a camera" [1]. So, with this information in mind, how can stand-up comedy glorify God? Giving an always-applicable principle as an answer, a stand-up comedian glorifies God by getting up in front of people

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