I’m always ecstatic when writers around the web write guest pieces for Beneath the Tangles. Today, the amazing Hailey (who I’ve long hoped would work something up for us) guests for our blog, explaining what a popular atheist character has to do with Christians and forgiveness. I spent one glorious Saturday last semester sitting in… Read More Guest Post: Forgiving Hohenheim
Baby, it’s coooold outside! A perfect opportunity, I think, to watch anime and read about it! Edward Elric knows he’s missing something in human transmutation equations – he just doesn’t know it’s the soul. [Old Line Elephant] There’s plenty of comparison to be made to both the Christian and Buddhist religions with relationship to deities… Read More Something More: Your Pursuit in April, SAO’s New Earth, and Eureka Seven’s Messiah
A great thing about being an anime fan is that four times a year, we can get excited about a slate of new series! While we wait on most of these to begin, a number of bloggers reflect on the final episodes of summer 2014 anime and on series older than those. Draggle digs into… Read More Something More: Faustus Metal Alchemist, Hopeful Anime Heroes, and Anime as Bible Study
As many Christians will tell you, mercy and grace are some of the dearest and most beautiful qualities of God. Not only does he show us mercy every day by guiding us through problems that we often bring on ourselves, but he gave everyone on earth mercy by dying on the cross so we wouldn’t… Read More Mercy in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
The summer season has passed it’s mid-point, and bloggers continue to find great spiritual connections in current series, joining a number of other excellent articles about some more classic ones that posted this week. Frank finds perhaps an intentional connection to Christianity and Japan’s Hidden Christians in Barakamon. [A Series of Miracles] Annalyn looks into… Read More Something More: Forgiving Kirito’s Sin, Real Barakamon Church, and Hamatora’s Anti-Christ
The beginning of a new anime season is always fun! Anibloggers are most active during this time, with literally a thousand or more anime articles coming out this week. Luckily, a number of those are spirituality-related, and we have a slate of great articles to link to today! Frank is excited about the new season… Read More Something More: Deva Orochimaru, Humble Kirito, and Bishie Satan
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