π Black Friday in Chicago: Even Simple Resistance Has a Receipt
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January 09, 2026
Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith
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Eugene Peterson once observed, βWe live in a culture that has replaced soul with self. This reduction turns people into either problems or consumers.β He warned that once this exchange is accepted, even politely and unconsciously, it begins to hollow us out from the inside, until we are no longer neighbors or fellow travelers. We become commodities circulating in an endless marketplace, valued not for who we are but for what we can produce, purchase, promote, or perform. It is a slow erosion, the kind that happens quietly enough that we barely notice what has been lost until we find ourselves standing on ground that no longer feels solid....
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What is reality? Billionaire Elon Musk has wondered if our reality is a massive computer simulation, as conceived by Sophia Stewart in the Matrix movies. Popular sayings like βYou only live onceβ imply that there is nothing beyond earthly life. The only reality is what we see, feel, and hear.
Is that all there is?
Or comparatively, is there a blue pill to take and wake up to a more real world?
Reality, often regarded as the visible world, is a concept that has intrigued humanity for millennia. What precisely is the nature of reality? How do human beings understand it? Does God exist beyond the electrical signals of our nervous system?...
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