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Reviews of relationship guides and the ever-changing love landscape.
(Part 1) The Collapse of Duty: Reclaiming the Moral Order Between Men and Women
For most of human history, marriage was not a lifestyle choice. It was a moral covenant. It bound man and woman to something higher than themselves, forming the foundation of family, community, and civilization. The vows were not about feelings, but about faithfulness. They were not written to protect comfort, but to produce character. And yet today, we live in a world where marriage has been emptied of its meaning, turned into a contract of convenience that can be broken “regardless of fault.”
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
If I was embarrassed, would you want to see it?
Creative writing has always been really funny to me because I never knew how to start a piece. How does one start this flow of consciousness just from pen to page to thoughts? Let’s begin! I mean, seriously, I can’t be the only one who finds writing and throwing up similar. Between feeling choked up with all these words that you want to say yet having no way to say them in a cohesive manner, let alone be able to tell a story good enough to read. Then you must go through the additional effort of editing and publishing all that word vomit and having other people look at it. It’s quite a crude feeling indeed. With that said, I’ve really taken this challenge to heart with wanting to write every single day. The permission has seemed to also manifest into writing multiple times a day. What’s really nice about setting the parameters of being allowed to write anything as long as it meets the word limits of vocal has really inspired me to just allow myself to let go and just put down thoughts to paper. It’s also posed the question: why is it so embarrassing to put ourselves out there? Creativity has always been a big part of my life (my most notable accomplishment being an art award from school, where the prize was about $50 worth of art supplies back in the 2000s) and it’s always bled into other areas of my life. Yet I still hate to show my work! It’s such a similar sentiment to vomiting and then asking you to please come over and look at it because I’ve cleaned it up a bit— truly a horrendous exchange— yet I believe that’s what makes art, art. It’s not easy to put yourself out there, let alone when you have complicated emotions like grief, love, lust, ambition— all these powerful sentiments other people can relate to, but that you’re just not sure they can relate to you quite exactly like you do. It’s in that singularity, that peculiarity that I believe is what makes a difference in how we view ourselves as artists alike. A signature print that we leave as we spend time on this earth— you know a Dali from a Van Gogh from a Tim Burton and even when there’s work that’s similar you still know that the essence is different. It’s a replica. That’s incredibly intimate; art is incredibly intimate in its singularity.
By Maria Sanchez5 months ago in Humans
The False Dilemma
The Mirage of Choice Every day, whether in politics, philosophy, or faith, people are pressured into false choices. You either believe this, or you must believe that. You either accept this statement entirely, or you reject truth altogether. These are not honest discussions. They are traps.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
Planting Truth In Hostile Soil
The Calling To Plant There has never been an age where truth was loved by the crowd. From the prophets of Israel to the apostles of Christ, those who spoke truth have always done so against the wind. Yet each generation faces its own form of resistance. Ours is not built on swords or prisons, but on sarcasm and pride. It mocks what it cannot refute and ridicules what it cannot understand.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
AI And Apologetics
The Tools of the Age Every generation faces the same question in a different form: how should faith engage with new tools of power? In one era it was the printing press. In another, the radio or television. Today, it is artificial intelligence.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
The Mirror Of Mockery
The Nature Of The Mirror Mockery has become the native language of the modern world. It fills screens, floods comment sections, and echoes through every arena where ideas are exchanged. What once required substance now survives through sarcasm. To ridicule is easier than to reason.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
The Logic of Faith: Why Reason Without God Collapses Under Its Own Weight
The Myth Of Neutral Logic Modern thinkers often claim that logic is neutral, belonging to no belief system and standing above faith. They insist that religion is emotional, while reason is empirical. But logic is not a freestanding structure. It rests on foundations, and those foundations must exist somewhere.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
The Death Of Dialogue
The End Of Listening Once upon a time, disagreement was not a threat. It was a bridge. People could sit across from one another, share convictions, challenge ideas, and still part as neighbors. The goal was not domination but discovery. Somewhere along the way, that changed.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
Christ Is King
Every culture has a throne. The only question is who sits on it. Some people crown themselves. Others crown society. Still others crown the government, or money, or pleasure. But someone or something always rules the human heart. The idea of living without a king is an illusion, because every human being worships something.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
The War on Order
We live in a time when doing the right thing often feels like an act of rebellion. When honesty can ruin a career. When decency is mocked as naïve. When standing for truth invites hatred, censorship, and isolation. Somehow, the people who uphold virtue have become the villains in the story of modern culture.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
The Death of “Live and Let Live”
There was a time when “live and let live” actually meant something noble. It meant respecting each other’s differences, coexisting in peace, and not forcing our personal views onto our neighbors. It meant freedom of conscience, speech, and thought. It meant that the person next to you didn’t have to believe what you believed for both of you to live decent, peaceful lives.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
