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Kristen Burroughs.

I create to force the inside out, to other myself, to expose my soul …

“The truth is seldom pleasant …”

Solzhenitsyn.


I BElieve.

God. Prayer. Devotion. Sanctification. The struggle. Koine Greek.

Oswald Chambers. Lettie Cowman. Spurgeon. Calvin’s Institutes, occasionally. Reading Jowett, Kitto, Bagster and AB Simpson, now.

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I THINK.

Philosophical theology. Intellectual history. Christian populism. Hermeneutics. Existentialism. Logic. Classical Greek and Sanskrit.

Perry Miller. Max Weber. Wittgenstein. Kierkegaard. Reading Michael Crichton’s book on travelling and Goethe’s Faust, in the tub, of course.

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I Create.

Painting. Mosaic. Architectural rendering. Piano and harpsicord. Popular religious art. All sorts of prose.

Christopher Alexander. Lovis Corinth, John Constable. Reading Kipling’s stories, now.

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Blog.

Admit it — the West has lost the war in the Ukraine

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April 25, 2023

contact

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April 19, 2023

She who rules her spirit is better than she that takes a city …

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April 17, 2023

Though I long to resume my own life, I’m helping my father end his.

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April 16, 2023

it really wasn’t all about you, dear …

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April 10, 2023

infatuated with “frenchiness” …

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April 9, 2023

telling lies, lacking trust, losing power

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April 7, 2023

religious persecution in the Ukraine

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April 5, 2023

political happenings, incompetence and the media

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April 4, 2023

my leap of faith

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March 15, 2023

the approaching hoofbeats of death

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March 13, 2023

doubt and God’s promises

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March 8, 2023

I’m Very Sick — Coram Deo

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February 15, 2023

Back in the States …

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February 13, 2023

Being Christian in Paris: 32 — futile protests and an absent revolution

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February 1, 2023

Being Christian in Paris: 31 — death-defying borders and boundaries

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January 24, 2023

Being Christian in Paris: 30 — fearing propaganda, avoiding censorship

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January 23, 2023

Being Christian in Paris: 29 — Writing book on war propaganda!

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January 19, 2023

Being Christian in Paris: 28 — photograph

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January 15, 2023

Being Christian in Paris: 27 — Camus and the existentialist life v. a desired haven

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January 9, 2023

Being Christian in Paris: 26 — winners, losers and propaganda

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January 5, 2023

Being Christian in Paris: 25 — writing frenzy, telling the truth

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January 2, 2023

Being Christian in Paris: 24 — pride, proxy wars, cynicism and self-destruction

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December 29, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: twenty-three — the fight to believe

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December 26, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: twenty-two — Zelensky, Bandera, reality and delusion

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December 23, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: twenty-one — the culture of Bankman-Fried, Marx’s superstructure and heritage Christianity

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December 22, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: twenty — delusions, propaganda, culture, war

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December 19, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: seventeen — Loneliness and Solitude

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December 13, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: eighteen — Jack London, political complacency and Green pieties

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December 10, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: sixteen — greetings, touch, small groups, small churches

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December 10, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: fifteen — culture, enculturation, identity and religion

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December 8, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: fourteen — why urban churches struggle; how urban churches can be revived

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December 6, 2022

Being Christian in Paris — thirteen: failed churches, cultural leavening, the showing of faith

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December 3, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: twelve — large and small churches, evangelism and church planting

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December 2, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: eleven — purpose, angels, blank canvases and revival

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December 1, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: ten — loving this city!, mapping Parisian churches large and small

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November 30, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: nine — Solitude and Thoreau; Gonzo and Thompson

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November 27, 2022

Being Christian in Paris — eight: homelessness, graffiti, plaster breasts

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November 26, 2022

Being Christian in Paris — seven: censorship, propaganda, reality and the war in Ukraine

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November 25, 2022

Being Christian in Paris — six: egalite liberte fraternite twitte

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November 23, 2022

Being Christian in Paris — five: wandering and shouting

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November 22, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: four — observancy, supply chains, bicycles, Sidney Mead

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November 21, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: three — first impressions of Parisian culture

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November 20, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: two — choosing to thrive … alone

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November 17, 2022

Being Christian in Paris: one — God’s provision, sovereignty and love when He doesn’t provide, control and is distant

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November 16, 2022

God’s Purposes are His Enablements

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November 14, 2022

Self-interest, strategic autonomy and multipolarity

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November 12, 2022

Where is today’s Wilberforce?

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November 10, 2022

A few personal notes …

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November 8, 2022

the Democrat’s two simultaneous wars: a foreign war in the Ukraine and a domestic war at home

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November 5, 2022

Hit the ground running with a minimalist look. Learn More

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