The Tyranny of Certainty: How Absolutism Distorts the Soul’s Path to Justice The 1950 film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa, is a masterful exploration of the human soul’s deepest contradictions. I’ve been a big fan of Kurosawa since discovering his work as a teenager, however this is one which took time and experience to fully…
The Weight of Inaction: Cowardice as the Most Foundational Sin and the Last to be Conquered in Materiality Hamlet, whatever version you wish to watch, is a clear mirror held to the human soul’s deepest struggles, revealing how the sin of Cowardice, rooted in the Fear moment of the Confusion aspect, paralyses action and distorts…
A Christian Philosopher’s Take on Batman Versus Joker In the sprawling metropolis of Gotham, teetering on the brink of chaos, we find ourselves confronted with a moral conundrum as old as humanity itself. The Dark Knight is a philosophy film cloaked in the garb of cartoonish comic book heroism. It invites us to ponder the…
Sin and Error; Most Outwardly Amnesis The sin of Amnesis is a dreadful forgetting eroding all virtues into nothingness, so it becomes much more than some personal failing; it is the rot at the heart of all failures in civilisation. Most horrible of all forgetfulness is in our godly purpose. The erosion of history’s lessons,…
Teaching the Next Generation Beloved disciple of Truth, now for the final and most vital responsibility of the spiritual soldier: to pass on the virtues of Christ Jesus to future generations. This is sacred duty that requires the virtues of Patience and Loyalty set the boundaries for the expansion of virtues against error. In this…
Living in the Kingdom of God Beloved warrior in our Lord, today we discuss eternal duty defining the true soldier: to live as an eager disciple within the domains of heaven. This aspiration, this calling, requires careful considerations in Courage and Loyalty. Far from any earthly definitions, the redefinition in Logos through Willpower Truth, this…
Rebirth Through the Logos Beloved seekers of divine truth, let us now ascend beyond the mortal realm and gaze upon the ultimate triumph: the resurrection of the spirit through Truth, prayer, and honest redemption. This is more than mere victory over death but a rebirth into the fullness of God’s eternal order, where the mind…
The Eternal Virtues in a New Era Beloved seeker after wisdom, let us now consider the most crucial virtue in an age of relativism and information overload: discernment. Truth is now too often drowned out by all the noise in our environments, with falsehoods and AI lies dressed as virtues, the soldier must wield their…
Training Against the Age Beloved warrior in Jesus, let us now turn once more to the most important training in our repertoire: prayer. Spiritual combat is what we are born to, and it is our prayer which enables us to fight back encroaching forces. In an age where technology seeks to replace the sacred and…
Replacing Psychology with Spirituality Today we look to the horizon, dear beloved of God, where the old tools of discourse holding us over have been abandoned for the renewed instruments of spiritual engagement. Modern psychology, though often praised as a science, is, in its current shape, but a mere shadow cast by the light of…