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A Magisterium of YOU: Private Judgment and the Root of Biblicism
Explore the logical fallacies of sola scriptura through the lens of a former evangelical teacher and seminary graduate, who found theological peace in the Catholic Church. Discover why the "Bible alone" model leads to a "magisterium of one" and why the Catholic Magisterium is the essential "floor" for Christian unity and truth.

JM Zabick
Dec 29, 202524 min read


Deconstructing The “Constantinian Shift”
This piece confronts a present-day myth, popularized by sensationalist fiction, online polemics, and certain strands of anti-Catholic theology, that claims that the Roman Emperor Constantine fundamentally corrupted and paganized Christianity in the fourth century.

JM Zabick
Dec 22, 202510 min read


“Crossing the Tiber” in the Age of Algorithms
As younger evangelicals grow disillusioned with consumer-driven faith and shallow worship, many are discovering the Catholic Church—not as the caricature they were warned about, but as a deeply rooted, coherent, and spiritually rich tradition. This article explores why so many are crossing the Tiber, and what their journey says about the shifting landscape of American Christianity.

JM Zabick
Jul 18, 202524 min read


The Myth of the Un-Qualified "Called"
The idea has long descended the merit it may once offered. It now resides in the swirl of contemporary Christian nonsense.

JM Zabick
Mar 27, 20243 min read


Mimicking (in the Hopes of Manufacturing) the Sacred
We can blame falling away on the siren song of "the world," but the more likely culprit is that folks are simply wisening up to the façade.

JM Zabick
Aug 12, 20234 min read


How Can I Understand Unless Someone Guides Me?
Let's identify and re-evaluate our teaching authorities in the spirit of Acts 8.

JM Zabick
Apr 27, 20235 min read


Revival, Reckoning, or Something Greater?
Younger evangelicals are not “down” with the attractional church their Gen X parents and leaders are hell bent handing on to them.

JM Zabick
Feb 21, 202313 min read


My Real Problem with the "Western" Church
The battle against Penal Substitutionary Atonement is yielding needless collateral damage.

JM Zabick
Jan 25, 202314 min read


From Revival to Religion—An Evangelical Deconstruction
I accepted the yearning had developed into a call. I would return to the Catholic Church

JM Zabick
Oct 5, 202216 min read


A Journey Home (3): From Resistance to Revival—The Early Evangelical Years
Finding Community in a Warren Assembly of God & Meeting God at a Pensacola Revival

JM Zabick
Aug 25, 202223 min read


A Journey Home (2): From Catholic Roots to the Evangelical World
My love for God is forged in Catholicism. And a lifelong attraction to his presence, found only in this expression of faith, has endured.

JM Zabick
Jul 24, 202215 min read


Are We Really ALL Theologians?
Theological uprising is needed if the American church is going to welcome Reformation 2.0. But don't just take the title, BECOME THE THING!

JM Zabick
Jul 13, 20229 min read


Reformation 2.0
Catholicism has been reforming. Is Protestant evangelicalism willing to meet them in the effort toward a world church Reformation?

JM Zabick
Jul 6, 202216 min read


The Self-Directed Church
Both society and the church are experiencing an erosion of trust and increasing division, because both are playing the same game.

Nathan Hackman
Jun 29, 202214 min read


Reforming the Reformation
If the church of tomorrow is to become the envisioned "world church" it must embrace the totality of humanity as God's masterpiece.

Geoffrey Bruschi
Jun 22, 202211 min read


A Journey Home: An Introduction to My Tale of Spiritual Homecoming
Part one in a set of entries chronicling my return to Roman Catholicism

JM Zabick
May 31, 20225 min read


Go, Therefore, and Make … Leaders?
The leadership priority is becoming a vocational idol in the contemporary American church.

JM Zabick
Apr 25, 20223 min read


Enough with the Eschatology!
I see the prioritization of End Times stuff in large portions of the church to be both frightening and recklessly inappropriate.

JM Zabick
Apr 14, 20222 min read


Does Romans Dare Teach Total Reconciliation?
Is the “good news” that we can be saved? Or is the gospel according to Paul really teaching us that we have been saved?

JM Zabick
Jan 6, 20228 min read


Could It Be the American Church Needs Some “Bashing”?
Facing complete irrelevance or total demise, the American Church is playing victim, again. It's not the time.

JM Zabick
Mar 12, 202110 min read
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