religion Archives - Charles A. Sullivan

The Vanishing Voices in the Digital Domain

December 19, 2025December 18, 2025

The shrinking space for the religious, scholar, working class, and marginalized in the digital world.

Introduction
Ten Reasons Why the Religious, Working Class, and Marginalized are losing their voices in the Digital Domain

1. The Collective Effort to Make the Web a Democratic Voice is Dying
2. The Effect of Copyright on Access and Speech
3. Artificial Intelligence Summaries
4. Google Ranking Metrics Ignore Metaphysical, Academic, and the Marginalized Entities
5. The Rise and Dominance of Apps
6. Religious Sites are Underrepresented in Google Search Results
7. The Demise of the University and Local Libraries and The Rising Cost for Independent Researchers
8. Paywalls, Subscription Fees, and Open Source
9. The Loss of Net Neutrality Hurts Religious, Academic, Working Class, and Marginalized Viewpoints
10. Media Development is Becoming more Expensive and Technical

Conclusion

The Rehumanization of a Christian Zombie

February 15, 2023

A candid look at faith, fears, loss, and hope through the lens of a zombie religious pilgrim.

A mirror hangs in the foyer of my house. Until recently it was the lone adornment on my freshly painted walls; my adult daughters eventually put up some pictures to hide what was, to them, an emotional desert, naked of any image, portrait, or memory. I walk through the house like a dead man among the living. I have become numb, like a zombie, finding that this is the only way to avoid the pain.

She is gone, and our children have grown up and left the house. After 38 years its many rooms stand empty. Old friends take sides, and some ghost me. Acquaintances shy away. My mother died some months ago; my aging body aches more profoundly with each passing day. God does not hear, and I am alone.

Edward Irving’s Defense on Unknown Tongues: Part 3

March 23, 2020March 7, 2020

A digitization of Edward Irving’s third defense in Fraser’s Magazine on his promotion of unknown tongues. Reverend Edward Irving and his central London congregation (1830s) were the center of world-wide religious attention on the topic and practice of speaking in tongues. The result was that he received heavy criticism from a variety of sources. Irving …

Charismatics, Headaches and Healings

November 1, 2021August 15, 2015

A new framework is required to remedy an overemphasis on staged healing events in churches. A practice that hampers or even destroys the message of the Good News within the public realm.

Evangelicals in the Canadian Political Realm

October 5, 2019April 6, 2015

Canadian Christians in the political systems: the positives, negatives, and the quest for a framework that the two parallel systems can work together.

There is no doubt that the Christian community’s contribution to society is enormous. Half-way houses, food distribution, addictions recovery, disaster assistance, child and family services, mental health and counseling assistance, AIDs respite, a moral and ethical voice, are a few of hundreds, perhaps a thousand more examples. If Christians and their institutions withdrew these services, Canadian society would suffer.

Death, Religion and the Modern Man

January 27, 2019April 22, 2011

A look at death from contemporary, religious, philosophical, and personal perspectives.
Death is the one question that modern science still has yet to answer in the most preliminary way. Religion answers questions about death, but this is largely ignored. Philosophy touches on the subject, but this falls short.
In modern western society, our thoughts on the subject are so thoroughly deficient, that we are not only unprepared, we emotionally flee.
It also produces many outcomes in the modern mind which are mainly on the subconscious level.

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