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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…
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…
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…
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…
Selling Out the Savior: Pompous Political Posturing
August 26, 2024
“We proudly support Vice President Kamala Harris as she champions true Christian values embodied in the teachings of Jesus.”[1] “Evangelicals don’t have to change who they are, they just need to…
Matrix or Messiah:
August 19, 2024
AI, Singularity, and Paganism’s Rosey Technicolor Eschatology “Does God exist? Not yet.”[1] “Would [Singularity] change the very idea of what it means to be human?”[2] “Never send a human to do a…
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…
Olympic Meddles:
August 5, 2024
Niceness, Naïveté, and Christianized Paganism By Dr. Jeffery J. Ventrella “Satan doesn’t serve spinach”[1] Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and…
Politics, Public Paganism, and the Way Forward:
July 29, 2024
The Ambrose Option By Dr. Jeffery J. Ventrella Introduction The last five Dicta editions analyzed in some detail the pagan impulses in our culture – and churches – that inform…
Legalized Sexual Anarchy: Does Reason Rescue this Idol?
July 22, 2024
Christ, Caesar, or Self: Recognizing Political Idolatry Idols in Our Midst – Part 5 By Dr. Jeffery J. Ventrella “Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity . . ….
Politics and the National Anthem of Hell
July 15, 2024
Christ, Caesar, or Self: Recognizing Political Idolatry Idols in Our Midst – Part 4 By Dr. Jeffery J Ventrella “I did it My Way!”[1] “The way of the fool is right…
Coziness with State Power
July 8, 2024
Idols in Our Midst : Christ, Caesar, or Self: Recognizing Political Idolatry-Part 3 By Dr. Jeffery J. Ventrella Introduction Last week, we explored St. Paul’s cosmology and showed how it informs and…
Idols in Our Midst
July 1, 2024
Christ, Caesar, or Self: Recognizing Political Idolatry– Part 2 By Dr. Jeffery J. Ventrella Introduction Truthxchange exists to Inform the public, Equip the Church, and Protect the Future. Last week, we explained the origins of…
Idols in Our Midst
June 24, 2024
Well, it’s election season. The first Presidential “Debate” occurs this week – pass the popcorn! The 24/7 news cycle continues to be cluttered with reports, rumors, and rhetoric – all of which…
Director’s Dicta: Christ Plus? Tribalism and the Hyphenated Christian Life
March 18, 2024
Lies that Live: Part 6 By Dr. Jeffery J Ventrella “I follow Paul, I follow Apollos, I follow Cephas, I follow Christ”[1] Unless you are wearing steel-toed shoes, this Dicta…
Director’s Dicta: Wither the State: Savior, Suspect, or Servant???
March 11, 2024
“Lies that Live” – Part 5 By Dr. Jeffery J Ventrella “We have no king but Caesar”[1] “Especially those of Caesar’s household”[2] “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s”[3]…
Director’s Dicta: Embryos, IVF, and Means/Ends Confusion
March 4, 2024
“Lies that Live” – Part 4 By Dr. Jeffery J Ventrella “As you did it to one of the least of these”[1] A recent state Supreme Court ruling has generated…
Director’s Dicta: I AM a Body; I HAVE a Body; or am I EMBODIED?
February 26, 2024
Lies that Live– Part 3 By Dr. Jeffery J Ventrella A woman trapped in a man’s body??!! “Life ain’t easy for a boy named “Sue”![1] In Part 2 of this…
Director’s Dicta: “Lies that Live” – Part 2
February 19, 2024
The Sexual Super Self By Dr. Jeffery J Ventrella [Cue the orchestra]: What is a man? What has he got? If not himself, then he is naught. To say the…
