HeyJaredThe Middle Room
Welcome to "The Middle Room," a devotional space for Christians wrestling with the "already, not yet" of our faith. As a Black Christian writer, I know firsthand the tension between the promise of God's kingdom and the complex realities of our world.
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In the Grips of Ego (opens the original)
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There is a moment in The Matrix when Morpheus tells Neo that a prison can exist without bars—that the greatest captivity is the one we mistake for reality. Neo doesn’t know he’s asleep because the illusion has become so familiar that it feels like his very identity. The choice between the blue pill and the red pill isn’t about discovering hidden truths about the world; it’s about confronting the terrifying possibility that the person he believes himself to be is built upon a carefully maintained
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