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3 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
As is often the case, I completely forgot the original inspiration for my last article, The Culture War is Spiritual. Because the music issue has been at the forefront of my consciousness for years, it has a tendency to take the wheel when I'm not l...
2 Mar 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"How are you going to stop the progress of fascism, control, and centralized ugliness if you're not producing anything heroic or beautiful?"Requiem Mass in NY I crossed the border into Mexico at Laredo, Texas 2 weeks before the 2020 presidential el...
29 Feb 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I am not a fan of fast-food banks. I distrust a company that sounds like it manufactures chewing gum with a financial transaction of any kind. I'm looking at you, "Stripe." How many flavors does your money come in? I don't really want to know. "...
28 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Genocide (noun): acts committed with intent to partially orwholly destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious groupMerriam-Webster WARNING: This article contains graphic images of a morbid and horrible nature. Kinda like this: Well, it's no...
27 Feb 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confoundthe wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the worldto confound the things which are mighty;”1 Corinthians 1:27 There was a gospel smackdown during Carnaval in Brazil this year. ...
25 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I have grown wings, I am flyingAscending fool, I am soaringUntied my wrists and flew away"A Wave of Hope My handler told me not to say anything, but he's going to feed all relevant incriminating documentation to a horde of wild moon bores anyway,...
23 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I woke up today with a sense of urgency I've never experienced. I've lived in fight or flight, hyper-vigilant panic/freeze mode for much of my life, and this wasn't that. The sense that time is VERY SHORT pursued me like a rabid, friendly animal. ...
22 Feb 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The most toxic side effect of the woke agenda is that it dehumanizes the individual and forces him or her into an over-complicated caricature. There is no such thing as a non-binary superhero or a man who can menstruate; there is very much such a th...
20 Feb 2024 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
What's the hardest part about being a Christian. Is it abstaining from sin? Controlling your tongue? Forgiving your enemies? Speaking graciously and with 1st Corinthians-grade charity to self-righteous, arrogant people who lower the standards of t...
18 Feb 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Thank you for your merch and forgiveness.You paid the price on Cavalry."The Church of Laodicea While making the lyric video for "Everything I Have Is Yours," I stumbled over 2 morbidly-humorous potential typos. Instead of "mercy and forgiveness,"...
