Thanks, God…We’ll Take It From Here
Jesus taught his followers how to live faithfully through trouble, discomfort and cultural uncertainty. American conservative Christianity increasingly treats those conditions as evidence that Christians have failed to acquire enough political power.
I Knew the Answer Before I Knew There Was a Question
I knew Israel became a nation in 1948 before I was ten years old. I knew because I was taught that it mattered to biblical prophecy.
Decades later, the story of a Palestinian olive farmer has me reconsidering not Israel’s right to exist, but the theology that taught me whose suffering I was supposed to see and whose cruelty I was supposed to excuse.
You Can’t Claim Scripture and Cherry-Pick It Too
When Paul is wielded to demand lifelong celibacy from LGBTQ people but quietly shelved when his teachings about singleness become personally inconvenient, something important gets revealed — not about scripture, but about how it’s being used.
This post is about the pattern I keep seeing in evangelical spaces: the moment you name the inconsistency, you stop being a truth-seeker and start being a threat.
That’s not discernment. It’s deflection. And it’s one of my deepest tensions with American Christianity today.
Are the Gates of Hell Prevailing?
When Jesus promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against his ekklesia, was he guaranteeing the survival of religious institutions—or something far more enduring?
A reflection on faith, power, institutional Christianity, and the difference between preserving a movement and preserving an organization.
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.
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.
The Problem with a Believing Pope
A comment from Timothy Snyder about Pope Leo and Donald Trump raised a deeper question I can’t shake: what happens when faith stops challenging power and starts protecting it instead? Reflections on political loyalty, evangelicalism, moral accountability, and the danger of confusing spiritual conviction with tribal allegiance.
Even Superman Let the Atheist Stay in the Room
A 1950s game show host — the original voice of Superman, no less — let an actual atheist crash his college Bible study for a few years. Turns out that’s more biblically sound than “guard your heart” ever was.