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March 15, 2025

Prayeradox: The Right To Bear Arms

Choose your own theological adventure. Click the triangle beside the stance that speaks to your soul—or, if you’re feeling brave, the one that challenges it. No need to click them all (unless you are willing to open with an open […]

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March 11, 2025

Look Up Superman

When we look up “Superman” in our minds, we’re not just recalling a fictional character or a philosophical abstraction. We’re accessing something more fundamental—our deep-seated need for models of extraordinary goodness. We need to believe that immense power can be paired with immense compassion, that strength can serve rather than subjugate, that someone will catch us when we fall.

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March 11, 2025

Mammoths out of Molehills

When overwhelmed by a task, I find myself picturing some ancient hunter standing bewildered before a freshly killed elephant, its massive gray form sprawled under an indifferent sky. “How…” he whispers to no one. Then, as if summoned by confusion itself, a passing wiseman offers: “try sequential, single bites.”

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March 7, 2025

Observations on the Natural History of Scribes

From the Journal of Dr. Jane Francis Gunn, Creative naturalist and founder of the BFG Creative conservation group Entry the First, 14th of May, 1847 It has been six months since I departed from London to embark upon what I […]

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March 7, 2025

International Rare Creative Species Protection Act (IRCSPA)

Protecting The Starving Artists Executive Summary The International Rare Creative Species Protection Act (IRCSPA) represents a landmark global initiative to identify, study, and protect the increasingly vulnerable population known colloquially as “starving artists.” This legislation acknowledges that creative individuals constitute […]

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March 3, 2025

An Open Letter the staff

OpnLetter_v5b_USE_THIS_1_FINAL.doc In this world of continuous conflict, where tensions rise and fall like the tide, we, the working class creatives of PTSD (Passages Through Stories & Design), find ourselves compelled to speak. Not as self-proclaimed martyrs of art, but as […]

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March 3, 2025

Heal the suffering

Heal the suffering, Celestial Medic, along with those experiencing mild spiritual indigestion, applying your holy bandages and divine antacids according to the prescribed dosage outlined in the Sacred Pharmacopeia of Miracles, through all insurance coverage periods and during open enrollment, […]

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March 3, 2025

Shower Blessings

Shower blessings, Celestial Sprinkler System, upon the broken-hearted and slightly disappointed, calibrating your divine water pressure to each recipient’s precise emotional drought levels, as documented in the Plumbing Code of Heavenly Maintenance, and give never into the dryness, less we […]