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Martinalia is the free weekly dispatch from brother logan, co-creator of Grunt Works. Every week you'll get Fightin' Words, a paraphrase of the Bible I'm building as I work through the Revised Common Lectionary. You can follow along with the podcast on YouTube and Spotify,

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Update 20260225 (Hump Day)

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The Tree of Discernment

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NotMyGospel 4: "And Friends"

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What OSU Celebrates, and What It Bans

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GruntGod 2.4.2: God's Kit List

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GruntGod 2.4.1: What's in a Name?

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Election 2024: Same Author, Same Editor, Different Rules

How the Jesuit Media Empire Applied a Double Standard to Disenfranchise Military Families, a federally protected class. In August 2024, America Magazine — the flagship Jesuit publication in the United States — published my opinion piece criticizing Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance for accusing Tim Walz of "stolen valor."

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GruntGod 2.3.5: Rules of Engagement

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May God Have Mercy on the House of Ignatius: A Soldier's Lament

I. The Soldier Who Became a Saint In 1521, a Spanish soldier named Íñigo López de Loyola stood defending the fortress at Pamplona when a French cannonball shattered his right leg and wounded his left. He was 30 years old, a soldier who dreamed of glory, a man who had

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GruntGod 2.3.4: Ḥāram and Holy War

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GruntGod 2.3.3: To Serve and Protect

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NotMyGospel: Production on the Fast Track

This is part of a series on “The Gospel of Rutba” I’m calling #NotMyGospel. On February 26, 2012, Greg Barrett finally sent me the manuscript for The Gospel of Rutbah. I'd been asking to see it for months. My own book, Reborn on the Fourth of July,

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The Masks Tell You Everything

Economic Conscription and the Minneapolis Raids In August 2025, the Department of Homeland Security announced it was removing all age caps for ICE law enforcement positions. Applicants as young as 18 could now apply, with no upper limit. The incentives were explicit: $50,000 signing bonuses, student loan forgiveness, enhanced

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GruntGod 2.3.2: Lost in Translation

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#NotMyGospel: Publishing My Perspective

On Primary Sources and Public Gods When Jesus outlined conflict resolution in Matthew 18, he prescribed a progression: go privately, take witnesses, tell it to the church. What he didn't say, but the text assumes, is what happens when each prior step fails. The progression isn't

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GruntGod 2.3.1: Etymology as Ethics

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NotMyGospel: The First Cut is the Deepest

When Iraqi Peacemaking Became Celebrity Posturing In January 2010, I returned to Iraq as a wannabe peacemaker, following what I genuinely believed was the Spirit of a living God leading me back to my (still active) theater of combat. In emails leading up to the trip, I told my fellow

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The Real Test of Religious Freedom: Why Eloheh Matters

I've just sent a letter to the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners supporting Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice in their appeal of permit restrictions that would make their religious practice nearly impossible. You can read the full story in Randy and Edith Woodley's own words

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GruntGod 2.1.5: Tropes or Troops