• Director’s Dicta

    Mirror, Mirror on the Church Wall: Paganism in the Pews

    August 12, 2024

    By Dr. Jeffery J. Ventrella Truthxchange exists to (1) Inform the Public; (2) Equip the Church; and (3) Protect the Next Generation.   Sometimes accomplishing No. 2 requires taking a candid inventory – warts and all –…

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  • “It’s Not Prostitution!” – Profiting from Creation Worship and Sexual Obsession

    February 10, 2025

    NOTE to Reader: This Dicta exposes cultural sexual sin that many may (and should) find shocking.  This content, though not graphically portrayed, is not suitable for younger readers.  The material world, as…

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    Bucking the Cultural Trends:  The TxC “Swiss-Army Knife” Advantage

    February 3, 2025

    When facing anticipated, but unspecified dangers in the wild, it pays to have a versatile and effective tool that can handle these challenges.  This is one reason many people carry…

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    Cherish, Don’t Cling: Stephen Charnock’s Gnostic Flirtation

    January 27, 2025

    Make no mistake – The Puritans, though frequently mischaracterized and maligned, occupy a crucial place in Reformational thinking.  Their commitment to Christ, His Word, and advancing God’s Kingdom rightly shames much…

  • Respectable Paganism:  Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche Walk into a Culture . . .

    January 20, 2025

    [Y]ou turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,[1] You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were…

  • Book Beat:  Past and Future

    January 13, 2025

    My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.[1] When you come, bring the cloak…

  • The Enlightenment’s Darkness

    January 6, 2025

    “Whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be compelled to do so by the whole body. This means nothing less than he will be forced to be free”[1] “The…

  • A Brief word from the Director of TruthXChange

    December 27, 2024

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    Transitions: Triumph, Trauma, or Transformation?

    December 23, 2024

    Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?[1] Every four years, the political pundits roar with “hot takes” and (largely irrelevant) speculation;…

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    Avoid Horoscopes, Tarot Cards . . . and Sociometric Seances?

    December 15, 2024

    “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?  Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”[1]   Christians typically understand that horoscopes and tarot cards stem from occult foundations.  These are…

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    Romans 1:32 Politicized

    December 9, 2024

    Censorship, Conformity, and Coerced Compliance . . . “I’m going to start taking people’s houses and their vehicles and their toys and draining their bank accounts and garnishing their wages”[1]…

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    (LGB)T-Ball in the Courts:  Gaining a Big “W” but Whiffing on Worldview

    December 2, 2024

    Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?[1] Preface Welcome to Dicta Express – Dicta Express is an occasional Dicta edition that presents an intentionally succinct worldview take on a breaking cultural issue.  This…

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    Parsing Political Parties in an Age of Paganism:  

    November 25, 2024

    Nine Theses  “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”[1] “[H]e pours contempt on princes…

  • Natural [Law] Apologetics

    November 18, 2024

    A Christian and a Pagan walk into a Bar . . . “Does not nature itself teach you”[1] For when Gentiles . . .  by nature do what the law requires”[2]…

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    Decision 2024: Delight and Dread

    November 11, 2024

    This edition of the Dicta will, with intended brevity, survey some of the worldview trends reflected in the 2024 election.  No doubt, some voters were ecstatic; and no doubt, others were…

  • “Law Follows Culture!”  Part 3

    November 4, 2024

    Navigating the Political and Cultural Winds “[Y]ou shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is begotten.”[1]  Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?[2] Introduction…

  • Navigating the Political and Cultural Winds

    October 29, 2024

    “Politics Follows Culture!”   Navigating the Political and Cultural Winds Part 2 [T]o “fix” the compass so that it tells you that the wrong way is the right way is far,…

  • “Politics Follows Culture!”  

    October 21, 2024

    Navigating the Political and Cultural Winds As the 2024 election cycle concludes, evidence of “campaign fatigue” rises.  Bombastic hyperbole abounds; draconian predications multiply about “losing democracy” or “never again having real…

  • About Face:   Meta, Masks, and Managing Technological Liturgies

    October 14, 2024

    “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”[1] The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?[2] For I have seen God face to face, and yet my…

  • California Schemin’

    October 7, 2024

    Caesar Against Christ Yet Again “The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth.”[1] Jesus answered [Pilate], “You would have no authority over me at all unless it…

  • The Ugly Monsters of “Baptized” Partiality

    September 30, 2024

    “Christianity – as the true religion affirming what is good, true and beautiful–commands you to love all but to prefer your people over other peoples.”[1]   “Stupid for Jesus is still…

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    The Educator’s Means: Understanding and Impacting the Christian Mind

    September 23, 2024

    School’s Back!  Educating to Transform People and Glorify God- Part 4 False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel.[1] Evil . . . starts with the verbal…

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    The Educator’s Mission:  Preparing and Preserving Salt and Light

    September 16, 2024

    School’s Back!  Educating to Transform People and Glorify God False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel.[1] Evil . . . starts with the verbal abuse of…

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    The Educator’s Context:  Cosmology

    September 9, 2024

    School’s Back!  Educating to Transform People and Glorify God You shall love the Lord your God with all your . . . mind[1] No longer walk as the Gentiles do, in…

  • School’s Back!  Educating to Transform People and Glorify God

    September 3, 2024

    You shall love the Lord your God with all your . . . mind[1] No longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds[2] Be transformed by…

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