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The Fantasy of Forever: The Danger Behind Biological Immortality
Does living forever lead to wisdom? Without grace, it distorts identity, erodes desire, and hollows the soul.
Zachary G. Botkin
September 10, 2025
Does living forever lead to wisdom? Without grace, it distorts identity, erodes desire, and hollows the soul.
Why does God rename people? To mark covenant, transformation, and purpose beyond their present identity.
Who will lead the Catholic Church next? The conclave may reshape its global, theological, and moral influence.
Is numerology reliable? Despite intriguing patterns, it often leads to confusion and misinterpretation.
Is it okay in these competing visions of the world’s problems (and solutions) for any one of us to make a serious mistake? If so, what is to be done about us?
Would we be willing to give up our ideas this Christmas? Or is it too hard to believe in a God that asks hard things of us—unpopular things and countercultural things?
Some have stepped away from Christian fellowship after witnessing examples of hypocrisy within faith communities across the country during pandemic and political fights. How can followers of Jesus do better in the future?
Influential voices tell us that to be yourself, you need to reject external sources of meaning—and follow “your truth.” But detaching authenticity from truth leads to emptiness, not fulfillment.
More than simply “maladaptive coping,” using pornography involves, at root, an expression of love and adoration in another human body – trusting it to bring a kind of transcendence and liberation from what hurts in life.
Nonviolence is a wonderful aspiration, but is it always God’s will? In the face of true evil, Latter-day prophets make clear our obligation to sometimes fight.
Everyone loves to believe that psychologists approach clients through a purely neutral lens. It’s precisely this mistaken presumption that allows real-life conversions to take place unawares.
How the Church’s name correction has re-emphasized, deepened and focused its culture of Christ