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Michael John Cusick argues that our addictions and disordered sexual desires are really a misdirected effort to reach God and live in connection with Him. How can this be? The crude simulation is but at poor substitute for the real thing, for the Truth. Yet in this fallen world, sinners repeatedly fall into the snares. “I do not understand my own actions,”—Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans—"For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” But like the prodigal son in the pigpen, we cannot but lift our eyes from the mud and think about the loving Father waiting for us at home.
Michael John Cusick, author, counselor, host of the wonderful podcast, Restoring the Soul, talks about what he has learned about addiction, disorder, mercy, and freedom, in his book Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle and also on this episode of Almost Good Catholics.
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Garrett L. Washington, "Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sebanti Chatterjee, "Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Geoffrey S. Smith and Brent C. Landau, "The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate Over Its Authenticity" (Yale UP, 2023)
Andrew R. Casper, "An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
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Christianity and the American Founding with Mark David Hall
Scott D. Mackie, "The Letter to the Hebrews: Critical Readings" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, "Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia" (Fordham UP, 2022)
Christine Kooi, "Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Cost of My Faith: A Conversation with Jack Phillips and Jake Warner
Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: A Conversation with Christopher Kaczor
Chandra Mallampalli, "South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Eric Hoenes del Pinal et al., "Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Pablo Bradbury, "Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930-1983): Faith and Revolution" (Tamesis Books, 2023)
Andrew Walker, "Social Conservatism for the Common Good: A Protestant Engagement with Robert P. George" (Crossway, 2023)
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Andreas J. Köstenberger and Greg Goswell, "Biblical Theology: A Canonical, Thematic, and Ethical Approach" (Crossway, 2023)
Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America: A Conversation with Michael Breidenbach
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