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106 essays on faith, psychology, and the age of AI. 44 are free to read here in full; essays marked Paid subscribers continue on The Inner Exodus.

July 7, 2026

The Pope Saw It Coming

His first encyclical is about AI. Almost nobody will read it. That’s part of the problem.

AI & Being Human

July 4, 2026

Use It or Be Used

The dividing line in the age of AI is not early or late. It is whether you use your time, or let it be used.

AI & Being Human

June 30, 2026

Machines Will Learn to Take Offense

A country just gave AI corporations legal personhood. The metaphysics won't decide this. The moral pressure will.

AI & Being Human

June 27, 2026

What Is College For When the Machine Can Do It?

The real crisis AI brings to the university isn’t academic dishonesty. It’s purpose.

AI & Being Human

June 25, 2026

Can an App Actually Help You Be More Human?

A private AI examination of conscience in an age designed to capture your attention.

AI & Being Human

June 21, 2026

The Religion of the Upgrade

The oldest promise in history has returned wearing new technology.

AI & Being Human

June 18, 2026 Paid subscribers

If We Reach the Stars

The Forgotten Question at the Heart of Humanity’s Greatest Adventure

Church & Culture

June 14, 2026

The Automation Boundary

Here is a question worth sitting with longer than a scroll usually allows:

AI & Being Human

June 11, 2026

Is AI Conscious? Wrong Question.

A Nobel laureate says yes. A Pope says something a machine can never become. The answer depends entirely on what you think a person is.

AI & Being Human

June 8, 2026

The Exorcist and the UFO Files

The Strange Agreement Between UFO Believers and Demon Hunters

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

June 6, 2026

The Upgrade

Transhumanism, the Church, and the question of what we are

AI & Being Human

June 3, 2026 Paid subscribers

Inside the Vatican’s Exorcism Course

A psychologist’s perspective on deliverance, healing, and the human person

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

May 31, 2026 Paid subscribers

The God You’re Praying To When You Open ChatGPT

On idolatry, loneliness, and what AI can’t give you — no matter how warmly it responds

AI & Being Human

May 29, 2026

The Grief Nobody Is Naming

Why your confusion about AI isn’t a problem to solve — it’s a passage to move through

AI & Being Human

May 27, 2026

AI’s Most Powerful Builders Are Turning to Rome

Why the creators of the machine are asking ancient spiritual authority to guide what comes next.

AI & Being Human

May 25, 2026

The Vatican Understands the Real AI Crisis

What Magnifica Humanitas gets right — and what it still hasn’t reckoned with

AI & Being Human

May 23, 2026 Paid subscribers

When the Lights Come On

What life looks like when AI becomes electricity

AI & Being Human

May 19, 2026

You Can Access Brilliance. You Cannot Download Wisdom.

On the kind of knowing that cannot be democratized

AI & Being Human

May 16, 2026 Paid subscribers

You Can Be Perfectly Understood and Still Be Lonely

On being modeled versus being known — and why the difference is everything

AI & Being Human

May 13, 2026

The Church Was Never Meant to Be Comfortable

Ekklesia, Incarnation, and the war we were called to wage

Church & Culture

May 10, 2026

AI Is a Left Brain Tool

What AI can optimize and what it cannot touch

AI & Being Human

May 7, 2026 Paid subscribers

Before You Can Hear Him

Why discernment requires purification, not just prayer

The Interior Life

May 4, 2026

Buy Back Your Time

On chronos, kairos, and what no productivity system can restore

The Interior Life

May 1, 2026

The One Skill That Changes Everything Else

Why the ability to watch your own mind may be the most human capacity left

AI & Being Human

April 29, 2026

The Devil Traffics in Reaction

Spirit-led versus algorithmic living — and why the difference is everything

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

April 27, 2026

Why Your Brain Dreams

And What God Is Doing While It Does

Psychology & Healing

April 24, 2026

The Wound That Became the Ministry

On the strange mercy of being formed by the thing that most hurt you

Psychology & Healing

April 21, 2026

NAVIGATE: An Inner Map for the Age of AI

Eight pressures shaping who you become—and how to respond.

AI & Being Human

April 19, 2026

You’re Not Busy, You’re Afraid to Stop

How anxiety disguises itself as productivity—and keeps you from rest

Psychology & Healing

April 17, 2026

When You’re Not Sure God Will Provide Enough

On hunger, the comparison to easier seasons, and the economy of the wilderness

The Interior Life

April 15, 2026

You Rejected a God Who Doesn't Exist

The Psychology of Unbelief and the Father Behind It

Psychology & Healing

April 13, 2026

Outlasting the Digital Empire

Why the desert fathers are the most practical thinkers of our moment

The Interior Life

April 11, 2026

The Best and Worst Thing That Has Ever Happened to Us

Where do you actually stand on AI?

AI & Being Human

April 9, 2026

What the Shepherds Aren’t Saying

The Church, superintelligence, and the prophetic silence that cannot continue

Church & Culture

April 7, 2026

The Mark of the Beast Isn’t Coming. It’s Already Here.

What Revelation is actually diagnosing — and why the real danger has nothing to do with microchips

Church & Culture

April 4, 2026

We Are Already at AGI

What Comes Next Should Terrify and Awaken You

AI & Being Human

April 2, 2026

Forty Days Without a Phone

What silence revealed about attention, anxiety, and the illusion of connection in the age of algorithms

AI & Being Human

February 17, 2026

Lent in an Age of Acceleration

Practicing the Sacred Pause While the World Speeds Up

The Interior Life

February 16, 2026

Led Out, Not Upgraded

Exodus, Artificial Intelligence, and the Refining of Our Desires

AI & Being Human

February 13, 2026

I Wrote This With AI

On Genius, Cheapened Signals, and the Ceiling That Machines Cannot Reach

AI & Being Human

February 9, 2026

Pronouns, Gender, and the War on the Body

Why the AI Age Is Making the Trans Debate Impossible to Avoid

AI & Being Human

February 8, 2026

Beyond Lust: What AI Is Really Doing to Human Desire

Pornography, digital intimacy, and why someone always pays the cost

AI & Being Human

February 6, 2026 Paid subscribers

AI, Personhood, and the End of the Binary

What Experts Get Right—and What Christianity Has Always Known

AI & Being Human

January 29, 2026

Cultivating Community in a Kingdom That Expands

From the helplessness of isolation to the authority of encounterable love

The Interior Life

January 26, 2026 Paid subscribers

WALL-E Spirituality

Comfort as a Substitute for Communion

AI & Being Human

January 24, 2026

Abundance Without Meaning

AI, Robots, and the Crisis of the Human Person

AI & Being Human

January 21, 2026

The Children’s Bread

Deliverance, Faith, and the Power of Beholding Jesus

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

January 19, 2026

When Obedience Disappoints

Why Jesus Refused to Become Who People Needed Him to Be

Church & Culture

January 16, 2026

The Anointing That Reaches the Fringe

From the Tassel of Jesus to the Integrated Body of the Church

The Interior Life

January 14, 2026

Stop Chasing the Snake

On Healing, Justice, and the Wounds Only God Can Restore

Psychology & Healing

January 11, 2026 Paid subscribers

Knowing About God… or Actually Knowing Him?

Intellectual and Sapiential Ways of Approaching the Living Truth

The Interior Life

January 9, 2026

Deliverance Without Fear | Restore the Glory Podcast

Why healing begins when the heart returns to Christ

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

January 5, 2026 Paid subscribers

The Comfort of Gathering, the Cost of Mission

SEEK and the Difference Between Consolation and Conversion

The Interior Life

January 1, 2026 Paid subscribers

Turning Forty in the Wilderness

New Year's Day, an Inner Exodus, and AI Angels

The Interior Life

December 30, 2025 Paid subscribers

Still Here, Still Becoming

Why the in-between is not a mistake

The Interior Life

December 29, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Eve Effect (Reframed)

Why Men and Women Will Use Chatbots Differently—Without One Being “More Deceived”

AI & Being Human

December 27, 2025 Paid subscribers

A Very Patient Devil

A Screwtape Reflection on Technology, Time, and the Formation of the Modern Soul

AI & Being Human

December 24, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Lie Beneath Enhancement: What Halo, AI, and Christmas Are Really Telling Us

Why becoming “more than human” may actually cost us our humanity

AI & Being Human

December 21, 2025 Paid subscribers

Hearts That Burn in the Age of Machines

Why Information Will Never Replace Presence

AI & Being Human

December 20, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Serpent Didn’t Shout

Why the future of AI will shape authority through conversation, not power

AI & Being Human

December 14, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Armor of God vs. the Armor of AGI

Why Perfect Self-Protection Will Become Our Spiritual Coffin

AI & Being Human

December 13, 2025 Paid subscribers

What AI Can Never Heal

And Why You Can’t Therapy Your Way Out of Sin

Psychology & Healing

December 12, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Coming Great Shift: How AGI Will Change Everything—And Why the Church Must Wake Up

A hopeful guide for ordinary Catholics entering an extraordinary future.

AI & Being Human

December 10, 2025 Paid subscribers

The God-Man and the Machine

Why No AI—No Matter How Powerful—Can Imitate the Wisdom of Jesus

AI & Being Human

December 1, 2025 Paid subscribers

🎧 Listen Free: The Opening Chapters of “Big GOD, Little Devil”

Step into a new way of seeing spiritual warfare — rooted not in fear, but in the victory you already stand in.

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

November 29, 2025 Paid subscribers

When God Speaks in the Night

On the Theology, Psychology, and Discernment of Dreams

The Interior Life

November 27, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Sacred Return to Now

How Praise, Presence, and Humility Break the Grip of Anxiety

Psychology & Healing

November 24, 2025 Paid subscribers

First Fruits: The Path From Repentance to Thanksgiving

Cain and Abel, self-reliance, and the quiet return to God that changes how we see everything we already have.

The Interior Life

November 21, 2025 Paid subscribers

When Our Tools Stop Working: The Holy Invitation Beyond Technique

Reflections from my conversation with Matt Lozano on the Open Doors Podcast

The Interior Life

November 20, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Real Issue Isn’t AI. It’s Our Fear of New Instruments.

Rethinking anointing, creativity, and worship in a changing world.

The Interior Life

November 16, 2025 Paid subscribers

When Your Inner Life Feels Like a Borderland, Not a Home

Why God often works most in the places that feel least “spiritual.”

The Interior Life

November 13, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Little Finger That Teaches Me About God

What my daughter’s smallest requests reveal about the Holy Spirit’s gentle way of moving the human heart.

The Interior Life

November 7, 2025 Paid subscribers

When Miracles Look Like AI

Holding on to wonder when every sign can be faked.

Church & Culture

November 5, 2025 Paid subscribers

When Truth Comes from the “Wrong” Mouth

How cognitive biases blind us to grace—and how the saints teach us to see again

Church & Culture

November 2, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Resurrection Was a Roast

How God Turned Death Into the Ultimate Punchline

Church & Culture

October 31, 2025 Paid subscribers

🎃 RECLAIM THE NIGHT: Sanctifying Halloween

Prophetic souling and the authority we forgot

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

October 28, 2025 Paid subscribers

Gallows Humor and the God Who Laughs at Death

Why Jesus — and the Irish — teach us how to survive sorrow with joy

The Interior Life

October 26, 2025 Paid subscribers

You’re Already Catholic — You Just Don’t Know It Yet

Why there’s only one Body (and you’re in it)

Church & Culture

October 24, 2025 Paid subscribers

When People Say the Rosary Is Sorcery

How my last post triggered a wave of comments about “Mary worship” — and why I’m actually grateful for it.

Church & Culture

October 22, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Rosary: God’s Love in Beads and Breath

How a simple prayer became Scripture in motion — and a maternal instrument of the Spirit

The Interior Life

October 18, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Grace of Being Wrong (and the Poetry of Words)

Apparently Not a Heretic—Just Bad at Hebrew

The Interior Life

October 16, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Secret Hidden in Genesis 1:1

The first word of Scripture encodes the Cross—letter by letter

Church & Culture

October 13, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Enneagram from a Catholic Perspective: A Guide to Discernment

How Catholics can wisely evaluate popular personality tools in light of their faith

Psychology & Healing

October 12, 2025 Paid subscribers

Clickbait for the Kingdom

Fishers of men in a world of algorithms

Church & Culture

October 9, 2025 Paid subscribers

What my daughter taught me about trust (and why we reach for control when we’re afraid)

Safety, surrender, and what happens when we mistake control for connection.

Psychology & Healing

October 6, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Error of Our Life

Why Holiness Offends and Comfort Deceives

The Interior Life

October 3, 2025 Paid subscribers

When Your Bones Dry Up: The Biblical Path Through a Crushed Spirit

Why Inner Despair Weighs Heavier Than Sickness—and Where God Meets Us There

Psychology & Healing

September 29, 2025 Paid subscribers

St. Michael and the Anchor of Identity

Who is like God?

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

September 22, 2025 Paid subscribers

Kingdom Medicine

Where Medicine and Miracles Meet

Psychology & Healing

September 18, 2025 Paid subscribers

Get Behind Me, Satan

When Your Reasoning Turns Against God

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

September 15, 2025 Paid subscribers

The God We Imagine

When Lies Become Bondage

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

September 13, 2025 Paid subscribers

Why I Plan on Being Unemployed When Jesus Comes Again

When Healing Isn't a Full-Time Job

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

September 11, 2025 Paid subscribers

When Jesus Said ‘Cut It Off’—and What He Really Meant

The Most Misunderstood Line Jesus Ever Spoke

Church & Culture

September 7, 2025 Paid subscribers

We Chase Snakes Instead of Treating the Bite

Why We Don't Heal from the Pain of Being Wounded—and How God Offers the Anti-Venom

Psychology & Healing

August 29, 2025 Paid subscribers

From Wizards to Prophets

Why the Supernatural Story Matters

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

August 22, 2025 Paid subscribers

When Demonic Manifestations Signal a Barrier to Faith

Why the early Church saw demonic manifestations as a lack of faith, not a show of power

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

August 17, 2025

When Demons Tell Our Story

Why Wounds Are Their Favorite Language

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

August 11, 2025 Paid subscribers

Cleansing & Protection Prayers

Repositioned in Christ, Not Ruled by Fear

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

August 5, 2025 Paid subscribers

Are Other People's Prayers Dangerous?

Reframing Spiritual Boundaries Without Fear

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

July 22, 2025 Paid subscribers

Black Magic Coffee and the Conscience of the Believer

Discernment in a World of Spiritual Mimicry

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

July 17, 2025 Paid subscribers

The War is Won: Why “Big God, Little Devil” Is Revolutionary

The enemy is disarmed. Victory is assured. So why are so many Christians still living in fear?

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

June 12, 2025 Paid subscribers

"The Ritual" Got It Wrong—And We Still Do

How We Misuse the Rite of Exorcism

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

May 27, 2025 Paid subscribers

From Cowering to Conviction:

Rethinking the Fear of the Lord

The Interior Life

May 7, 2025 Paid subscribers

Renunciation in Deliverance Ministry:

Finding the Heart of Freedom

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare

May 5, 2025 Paid subscribers

Impartation of Spiritual Gifts:

Recovering a Charismatic Grace in Catholic Tradition

Church & Culture

May 5, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Irony in Fr. Ripperger's View on Emotions and Demons:

A Cycle of Emotional Reasoning and Superstition

Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare