Author: Matthew Triplett
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Advice on Authentic Agency
You’re far more powerful than you realize, shaped by your past struggles. You’ve transcended helplessness, but don’t let authority misuse your agency. Break free from toxic constraints, whether from employers or parents. Stay authentic, know your worth, and remember: you dictate how others treat you. Own your strength and rise.
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The Pull of Older Ground: When Modern Faith No Longer Feels Thick Enough
Written from the tension that emerges when faith language no longer carries the weight it once did. What presses on me is not doubt, but recognition, a disciplined awareness that thinner words cannot hold thicker realities. This is an invitation to a search for continuity, for language and ground sturdy enough to bear what the…
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Hell on Holy Week
The holiest week in the Church calendar evokes a complex blend of anticipation and grief. While moments of despair often overshadow the expected joy of resurrection, the text emphasizes the importance of authentic presence during sacred seasons. Even amidst confusion and unease, holding onto hope remains a profound testament of faith.
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The Morning I Was Smuggled to Work
Last night’s power outage turned into quite the spectacle with sparks raining down, keeping us on edge until the morning.
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At the Center: Christ, Agency, and the Work of Understanding
I asked God whether He was the author of order or chaos. The answer did not come clean. It came as a limp. This piece is the map of that wound and what it revealed about Christ, authority, and the terrifying privilege of human freedom.
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A Republic Lost, A Promise Unbroken
Where is our Lady Justice now, the one who once stood tall, blindfolded, unbending? What has become of her sweet sister Liberty, whose very breath once stirred men to courage? And for whom do these virtues still exist? For our oligarchs, perhaps, the new lords of a land that pretends it is still a republic.…
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The Compass I was Carrying: Finding My Way
Sinek’s work moves from polished origin stories to the kind of practical confrontation that forces clarity. It doesn’t hand you truths but it corners you into naming the ones you’ve been living without language. For me, it didn’t reshape my understanding. It did exposed that responsibility had been my structure all along.
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Jesus’ Ancient Claims: Explained
When Jesus says, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life,” I hear it as a claim about reality itself. He is not presenting Himself as one path among many, but as the source toward which every sincere search has been aiming. If this is true, then existence is not held by default.…
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Nothing or No Thing: Ancient Memory, Metaphysics, and the Stories We Refuse to Take Seriously
Forget everything you think you know about ancient stories; they aren’t mere myths. They are lived memories of a world where humanity and the divine intertwined, bursting with mastery and peril. The ancients weren’t naive; they were brilliant, remembering truths that connect cultures across time. It’s time to listen to those echoes.
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‘Tis Season That Demands Something of You
Christmas was never about coziness. It began as a disruption. A sacred family in a damp, dark cave. The Bread of Life laid in a trough for wild animals. Light entering darkness. Order putting on the clothing of chaos. Restoration and renewal, bought at a cost older than the world. That is the ancient pattern.…
