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Blogs, Essays, Poetry & More
“Let the words of my mouth & the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.”
Psalm 19:14


Great Expectations
Not everyone leaves their hometown. Perhaps such folks find themselves lingering in a place far longer than they ever thought; they had intentions to go abroad for a great adventure at some point, only it never materialized. Not, at least, in the way they had once expected.
Joshua Budimlic
18 minutes ago6 min read


News From the Frontlines: July 11th, 2026
God’s Children Really Will Live Happily Ever After / The Infinite Gulf / Spurgeon’s Surprising View on Aliens / Six Realities for the Anxious Soul / Act in Accordance With Your Prayers / A Theology of Exercise / Can Math Prove God?
Joshua Budimlic
4 days ago3 min read


A Portrait of My Hometown
Have you ever paused to consider how a place comes to find itself haunted? Haunted in the old-fashioned sense of the word: laden heavily with experience, nostalgia, and memory, rather than the modern fare of ghosts, spirits, and phantoms.
Joshua Budimlic
6 days ago5 min read


News From the Frontlines: July 4th, 2026
Crushed By Past Regrets? / Would You Attend Your Son’s Execution? / The Delightful Duty of Married Sex / Will Britain finally awaken? / The Quiet Crisis of Prayerless Orthodoxy / How Can We Give Generously without Worrying? / The Joy of Patriotism
Joshua Budimlic
Jul 34 min read


Just Keep Swimming
A few months ago, I took up swimming. What began purely as a means of exercise soon blossomed into something of a religious experience—though not in the kooky, New Age-y way, mind you.
Joshua Budimlic
Jun 277 min read


News From the Frontlines: June 27th, 2026
Death, Grief, and Frodo’s Incurable Wound / The Bible Is Never Enough / Saying Goodbye to Moses / No Service for Jesus Is Small / Writing is Pain, But Environment Can Help / Ask Whatever I Wish? / The Holiness of God
Joshua Budimlic
Jun 264 min read


A Big Brother’s Address to His Little Sister on Her Wedding Day
Good evening, everyone. My name is Joshua Budimlic, and I am Dakota’s oldest and only brother. You may recognize me as the man who had the honor of walking Dakota down the aisle only a few short hours ago.
Joshua Budimlic
Jun 216 min read


News From the Frontlines: June 20th, 2026
Welcome to News From the Frontlines! Over the past several years at Iotas in Eternity, I have been so heavily focused on content creation that I’ve sorely neglected content curation.
Joshua Budimlic
Jun 195 min read


Life & Death in the Budimlic Family
In a fallen world, hospitals are perplexing places. They can represent the very best of times, such as the birth of a child, and the very worst of times, as with the death of a loved one. Indeed, life and death are so often held in the palms of a simple hospital bed.
Joshua Budimlic
Jun 88 min read
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