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 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 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...
by devotionalia | Mar 18, 2025 | Anglicanism, Christianity, Lutheranism, Protestantism, Reformed/Calvinist, Roman Catholic
I was sitting in my local coffee shop on Sunday morning and I noticed something curious. One group of smartly-dressed people hurrying their way to church, while everyone around me was lazily sipping their lattes and scrolling on the phones. It struck me that many...
by devotionalia | Aug 15, 2024 | Anglicanism, Christianity, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheranism, Roman Catholic
Hagiography sounds like a dusty, old-school term, but honestly, it’s anything but dull. Once I’d moved past my mental image of the dusty old book, I realised hagiographies are more like an ancient Instagram fan page of sainthood, where the lives of...
