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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


A Re-Appraisal of Saint Thomas: Our Process Model for Authentic Faith
Reconsidering the "doubting" Apostle, based in empathy and understanding for the strength he demonstrated for coming to faith.

JM Zabick
Apr 24, 20258 min read


Groundhog Day as a Sketch of the Christian Life
A 1993 film with Murray and MacDowell offers a powerful metaphor for pursuing our telos as God's creation.

JM Zabick
Feb 27, 20259 min read


Own Your Theology Proper!
Your Devotion, Spirituality, and/or Theology Will Never Rise above the Starting Point of Your Concept of God.

JM Zabick
Mar 25, 20233 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


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


What Manner of "Spiritual-ness" Is This?
A primer on the difference between those who've come to faith and those who have assumed a faith.

JM Zabick
May 17, 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
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