“Y’all Just Don’t Hate the Media Enough”
When a longtime friend shares a post saying “y’all just don’t hate the media enough,” a journalist’s dad reflects on family, faith, and why media‑bashing hits so close to home.
More Than a Membership Card
A reflection on how modern Christianity often functions more like tribal identity than transformative relationship—and why walking away from the “club” did not mean walking away from the teachings of Jesus.
One Hundred Posts Later: Apparently, I Had More to Say
Celebrating 100 randomly rudimentary blog posts and reflecting on the long and winding road to authentic writing.
Reformation or Reconstruction?
What happens when a movement centered on compassion slowly becomes an institution centered on preserving itself?
Reflections on evangelicalism, the Reformation, and why I no longer believe the modern church looks much like the movement Jesus started.
The Sad Moment When American Politics Became Spiritual Warfare
American politics did not always feel like permanent warfare. Reflecting on evangelical “spiritual warfare” language, fear-based political messaging, and the rise of distrust as a cultural operating system.
When Does Ridiculous Become Dangerous?
A reflection on Sophie Scholl, authoritarianism, satire, fear, and the uneasy tension between survival and conscience in modern political and religious culture.
Faith, Hope, and the Things We Cannot Fully Know
What if faith was never meant to eliminate uncertainty? A Sunday reflection on hope, humility, doubt, and why faith may be less about certainty and more about learning to live honestly with the things we cannot fully know.
Figuring Out Why We Are Who We Are
The older I get, the more I realize people don’t arrive at their beliefs through logic alone. We are shaped by family, fear, faith, trauma, culture, and the deep human need to belong somewhere.
Maybe understanding those “knots” matters more than winning every argument.
The Hidden Stories of the Movies I Never Saw
Looking back at the movies that defined the year I was born, I realized how many of them I never really knew at all. What began as a simple trip through film history became a deeper reflection on growing up in a conservative Christian culture where entertainment was expected to reinforce a carefully curated moral world—and how the stories we avoid can shape us just as much as the stories we embrace.
Why I’m Calling It ‘Life’ Now
Fourteen years ago, I named this blog Randomly Rudimentary Faith Stuff.
The writing—and the writer—have changed.
I’m calling it Life now, not because faith matters less, but because I’ve come to see faith and life as inseparable.
Randomly Rudimentary Life Stuff 