Eastside Church of Christ

06/09/2026

Not Less Moral. Just Less Babylon.

Revelation gives us two images, and they could not be more different. The first is a pr******te riding the beast, drunk on the blood of the saints. The second is a bride, clothed in fine linen, made ready for the Lamb. Babylon is not simply “bad people out there.” It is the whole system of cultural power, disordered desire, and false worship that trains a people to love what God hates and hate what God loves....

Revelation gives us two images, and they could not be more different. The first is a pr******te riding the beast, drunk on the blood of the saints. The second is a bride, clothed in fine linen, mad…

06/07/2026

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06/05/2026

What good is “mere” learning when the world is on fire?

C.S. Lewis answered that question in Oxford, 1939. The Second World War had just begun. Students were asking whether the life of the mind still mattered. His reply, later published as “Learning in War-Time,” was not a retreat from urgency. It was a call to intellectual faithfulness.

Ruins of the Omride royal palace on the acropolis of ancient Samaria (Sebastia), laid waste in the Assyrian conquest of 722–720 BCE. C.S. Lewis answered that question in Oxford, 1939. The Second Wo…

06/03/2026

Reasonable Faith in an Unreasonable Age

Everyone believes. The question is what your belief can bear. Most of us don’t meet bad theology first in a classroom. We meet it on our phones. You’re scrolling between emails and grocery lists and there it is: a polished graphic announcing that Christianity is just re-branded paganism, or a reel claiming some ancient myth proves the gospel. For a moment you feel it in your chest, a mix of weariness and worry....

Everyone believes. The question is what your belief can bear. Most of us don’t meet bad theology first in a classroom. We meet it on our phones. You’re scrolling between emails and grocery lists an…

05/31/2026

What Can Guide Man?

Rock-cut façade of the Tomb of ‘Unayshu in Petra, Jordan, carved high into the Jabal al-Khubtha cliff above smaller cave openings along the Street of Facades, near the Nabataean theatre, photographed in 2019. Inside some of my current reading is a deceptively simple question: what can guide man? Across a handful of ancient and modern texts, the answers range from reason to justice to desire to God himself....

Rock-cut façade of the Tomb of ‘Unayshu in Petra, Jordan, carved high into the Jabal al-Khubtha cliff above smaller cave openings along the Street of Facades, near the Nabataean theatre, photograph…

05/25/2026

Memorial Day

© Verity Milligan, veritymilliganphotography.com. In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead.Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields....

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© Verity Milligan, veritymilliganphotography.com. In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce h…