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Joshua Heavin

Rev. Dr. Joshua Heavin (PhD, Aberdeen) serves as Curate for Pastoral Care at Christ Church Cathedral in Plano, Texas; he is the book reviews editor for Pro Ecclesia, the journal of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology; and he is an adjunct professor in the School of Christian Thought at Houston Christian University and West Texas A&M University.

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Christmas "Time" is Here

“Quid est enim tempus?” “So what is time?”[1] Pangs of nostalgia for innocence lost, discontent with reality present, and some combination of fear, uncertainty, or despair about the future can combine to make Christmas an especially difficult time. Recently, two […]

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How to Cultivate Epistemic Virtue

Bonnie Kristian. Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking our Brains, Polluting our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2022. 225pp, $24.99. Over the last decade, many of us have found ourselves increasingly unable to relate to the […]

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The Blood of Christ, Shed for You

Trembling, elderly hands sometimes lack the most amenable digits for holding thimble-sized cups filled with wine, but they are the hands into which the sacrament is placed nonetheless. Though having the congregation drink from one common cup has been the […]

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The Mystery of Being Human in a Dehumanizing World

In the summer of 2021 I began driving an ice cream truck. My small contribution to Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, an ice cream shop that deliberately employs workers with intellectual, emotional, and/or physical disabilities, such as Down Syndrome, was to […]

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Notes on Season One of Passages

A number of listeners have reached out to us with various questions about the first season of “Passages.” Here are our answers.

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The Cost of Nurture

Christians and even some non-Christian philosophers regularly strive to ‘remember death,’ but few of us seem willing to remember our birth. Only a few paragraphs into Augustine’s Confessions, he recalls the grace of God given to him by his own […]

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Passages: Season 1, Episode 12: We Believe

In the Nicene Creed, we confess that we believe in one God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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Passages: Season 1, Episode 11: We Look for the Resurrection of the dead, and the Life of the World to Come. Amen.

In the final articles of the Nicene Creed, we confess that “we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.”

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Passages Season 1: The Passages Score

If you have enjoyed listening to Passages, you have probably noticed the thoughtful music used in every episode. Find out more about its creator.

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Passages: Season 1, Episode 10: We believe in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church

In the final articles of the Nicene Creed, we confess that “we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

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Passages: Season 1, Episode 9: The Holy Spirit… who with the Father and the Son is Worshiped and Glorified

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Passages: Season 1, Episode 8: We believe in the Holy Spirit

In the Nicene Creed we confess that “we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father [and the Son], who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.