by devotionalia | Apr 19, 2025 | Christianity, Roman Catholic
What Does Purgatory Look Like? The human experience is rarely black and white. Most of us don’t live like saints, but we’re not mostly villains and rogues either. We try, we stumble, we grow, we carry regrets alongside good intentions. By the time we reach...
by devotionalia | Apr 17, 2025 | Christianity, Roman Catholic
Are Purgatory and Hell The Same Thing? Purgatory. Just the word sounds chilling, doesn’t it? I can’t help but picture Dante’s Inferno, a fiery hell where souls scream in agony, caught in a place of terror and suffering that feels like it may never...
by devotionalia | Apr 11, 2025 | Christianity, Protestantism, Reformed/Calvinist
Political Idolatry is becoming more common. There’s a viral video making the rounds: a woman paints a portrait of Donald Trump in a public setting while worship music plays, hands are raised, and the atmosphere feels more like a religious revival than a political...
by devotionalia | Apr 10, 2025 | Christianity, Philosophy, Roman Catholic
The Separation of Church and State in France. When I think of the French Revolution, I envision a political earthquake. If we set aside the images of brutal violence and gore for a moment, the Revolution was a full-on reimagining of society, identity, and power. We...
by devotionalia | Apr 8, 2025 | Parables, Protestantism, Reformed/Calvinist
Jesus New Wine Old Wineskins Explained Just as Jesus taught, the fermentation of justice, inclusion, and radical love requires new spiritual vessels. JD Vance’s speech in Munich about the supposed decline and misalignment in European values has been troubling me for a...
by devotionalia | Apr 3, 2025 | Anglicanism, Buddhism, Christianity, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheranism, Protestantism, Reformed/Calvinist, Roman Catholic
We don’t often talk of Christianity and Buddhism in the same breath. One thinks of following Christ and gaining salvation, while the other, the Buddha and enlightenment. One is theistic, the other non-theistic. One teaches us that we have a soul, the other that we...
