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Why Pilgrim’s Progress is Better Than The Sequel: Part The Third

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Awry Stoic

This is an outline of why Pilgrim’s Progress is better than the sequel. The sequel even features a bodyguard who as Pastor Bennett stated, is the allegorical equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger (or at least an 80’s action hero) who is … Continue reading →

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Why Pilgrim’s Progress is Better Than The Sequel: Part The Second

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Awry Stoic

Conflict is the engine of fiction. . . . The more hopeless you can render the situation, the more powerful your ending will be. — Jerry B. Jenkins[1] A life without tests and challenges is a life without growth and … Continue reading →

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Why Pilgrim’s Progress is Better Than The Sequel: Part The First

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Awry Stoic

A recent medal of honor recipient who had his face blown off by jumping on a grenade before going on to have his face reconstructed, accidentally parachuting into Arlington cemetery, and running a marathon, said that the common core of … Continue reading →

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On Cognitive Dissonance and Sanctification

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Awry Stoic

A psychology textbook defines Cognitive dissonance as “an uncomfortable clash between self-image, thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, or perceptions and one’s behavior.” If one state of affairs is believed to exist, but new information contradicts the earlier view of that state of … Continue reading →

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On the Symbiotic Nature of Joy and Despair, or the Shadow of Ecclesiastes in Pilgrim’s and Sam’s Progress

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Awry Stoic

Emotion is morally indifferent before application to an object. Much joy is vanity. Some joy is evil. There is no hope without despair. Hope and despair, or at least hope and fear, have a symbiotic relationship. There is no hope … Continue reading →

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C. S. Lewis’s Stoicism

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Awry Stoic

Lewis makes an uncharacteristically Stoic statement.[1] His words regarding Pilgrim are strange. Both of these elements have implications for the perception of God’s glory and its connection with good works. Usually Lewis uses a margin of error by reckoning for … Continue reading →

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Fake/Passion: The Mutilation of Valiant for Truth 

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Awry Stoic

[images/passion] Animal has passion. You know who has the most passion? Berserkers. Who drank gallons of alcohol before streaking across the battlefield? Berserkers.  Who used a cat of nine tails to whip the money changers out of the temple? Jesus. … Continue reading →

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