Joy as Spiritual Warfare in Trauma and Work (What I Learned from Wanda Thibodeaux)
Joy isn’t sentimental. It’s spiritual warfare.
Wade Fransson
Wade Fransson, a former Christian minister with experience across Europe, South Africa, and the U.S., observed Jewish Sabbaths from a Christian perspective, gaining insights into progressive revelation. Visiting the Baha’i World Center in 1981, he embraced the Baha’i Faith in 2007 with his wife Angela, later founding a publishing company and engaging in Baha’i community initiatives, including The Royal Falcon Foundation and the Created in the Image of God podcast.
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By Faith Moses Refused: Identity Without Envy, Solidarity Without Coveting
Faith sometimes means leaving like Abraham. Sometimes it means refusing like Moses.
The Garden as Courtroom and Laboratory: Concepts, Golden Calves, and the War for Reality
When Theology Starts Speaking in Dollars: How Our God‑Language Quietly Shapes Our Economics
Beloved Beyond Labels: What a Catholic, a Pentecostal, and a Runaway 4Runner Taught Me About Unity
By Faith Abraham Went: Leaving Entitlement, Embracing Responsibility
Hardness of Heart: Why God Permits What He Doesn’t Prefer
I Am Because We Are: Marlena Graves, Ubuntu, and the End of Selective Compassion
Some stories of calling begin with obvious talent and early success. Megan Rosselot’s did not.
One Flesh in a World of Fracture – Between Legalism and the New Golden Calf
From Hiding Your Name to Owning Your Destiny: What Scorpio Taught Me About Identity
Choose Freedom: When Neuroscience and Scripture Team Up to Break Addiction
By Faith Abel Offered: When Worship Costs You Something
From the Beginning It Was Not So: Oneness Versus the Trap of Compromise
The Power of Testimony: Why Mick Wienholt’s Work Is More Than a Feel-Good Show
Yellow Trucks and Two Kingdoms: How Jonathan England Learned to Leave Babylon
Why Hebrews 11 Won’t Let Us Separate Belief and Action
My interview with John DeDakis last night brought two parallel stories into sharp focus.
Joe Atman
Religion, Power, and the Vanishing Center: What I Learned from Talking with Historian Mark Silk
Fear, Faith, and Creature Feature: Why Christians Don’t Have to Panic About Horror
Job, Jesus, and the Fear of Being “That Kind of Christian”
“Widening the Path”: Five Theological Takeaways from My Conversation with a Practicing Catholic
Mothers of Creation: How Audrey Rindlisbacher’s Seven Laws Turn “Ordinary” Moms into World-Changers
The New Year’s Revolution
An Apocalyptic view of Anthropomorphic Climate Change
From the Outer Edge to the Heart of America: Announcing Facets of the One and a New Year’s Revolution
The Shape of Wonder: What Alan Lightman Taught Me About Science, Faith, and What Matters
Hell is one of those words that can still make the room go quiet.
Jubilee Islands: Hawaii, Family, and the Great Republic of the West
“Who Is the Israel of God?”
“Don’t Imagine My Blindness. Just Listen.” Empathy, Humor, and the God Who Speaks Through Many Voices
Mirror, Mirror: AI, Judgment, and the House of Lies We’re Building
