2025-05-08T17:22:12-04:00

Beth Moore said the quiet part out loud.  After years of front-line service in the Church of Male Fragility, she finally admitted that complementarianism—that tidy little theology that tells women to stay sweet, stay silent, and stay home—isn’t gospel truth. It’s a doctrine of man. Or, more accurately, a doctrine of white men with control issues and a historical allergy to nuance. Moore has since backpedaled a bit (because you don’t just burn bridges in evangelicalism—you get disinvited from the... Read more

2025-05-08T16:00:19-04:00

Let’s just say the quiet part out loud: nationalism and Christianity are not friends. They aren’t teammates. They’re not holding hands on a unity walk. They are fundamentally opposed forces—serving two very different masters. And no, you can’t blend the two without ending up with something unrecognizable, unbiblical, and often just plain unhinged. Yet here we are, in a moment where “Christian Nationalism” is no longer whispered in the corners of fringe Facebook groups but shouted proudly from pulpits, rally... Read more

2025-05-08T20:38:10-04:00

White smoke rose, the bells rang, and just like that—we’ve got a new pope. Enter Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago-born bishop with a passport full of mission trips, Vatican cred, and (gasp!) a few anti-Trump tweets. Naturally, progressive Catholics are lighting candles of cautious optimism. After all, when the bar is “didn’t actively support fascism,” he’s already breaking the papal mold. But before you break out the communion wine in celebration, let’s ask the harder question: does it actually matter?... Read more

2025-05-08T09:48:42-04:00

This is what deconstruction actually looks like: not a rebellion, not a trend, not a TikTok phase. Just a slow unraveling of inherited certainty in pursuit of something more honest. Alex O’Connor’s recent interview with Rhett McLaughlin—yes, that Rhett from Rhett & Link and Good Mythical Morning—is a fantastic example of a faith journey that had the audacity to keep going when the system around it begged him to stop. Rhett’s story isn’t about “losing faith.” It’s about following it... Read more

2025-05-08T15:26:42-04:00

Trump 2.0: When God Loves You Enough to Break You Fox News recently declared that divine intervention helped Donald Trump claw his way back into the White House. In a poll, a full third of Americans — and a fat majority of White evangelicals — seem convinced that God Himself shoved Trump across the finish line, shielding him from not one but two assassination attempts. Sure. Let’s go with that. Let’s assume, for argument’s sake, that God intervened… But before... Read more

2025-04-22T20:13:46-04:00

Remember when religious revivals were all the rage? The tent meetings, the sweaty preachers, the sobbing sinners crawling down sawdust aisles? America used to know how to awaken—with fire, fury, and a touch of snake handling. But now? We’re in a new kind of revival. Call it the Great Dumb-ening: a mass spiritual movement powered by YouTube conspiracy videos, anti-science tantrums, and sermons preached with the theological depth of a bumper sticker. We used to awaken to God. Now we... Read more

2025-04-14T17:02:07-04:00

Easter is this Sunday, and while most churches were busy declaring victory over sin and death, George Barna was busy sounding the alarm. His new report shows only 16% of self-identified Christians believe in the Trinity—and according to him, that’s the real crisis. Meanwhile, out here in the wilderness, I can’t help but wonder: if resurrection is real, why are we still policing belief instead of practicing love? Let’s be honest: when George Barna starts panicking, it’s usually worth paying... Read more

2025-04-09T09:23:29-04:00

Or: How to Turn a Soul into Glass in Three Easy Steps In 79 AD, a man’s brain turned to glass. No, seriously. When Mount Vesuvius exploded, it unleashed a surge of volcanic ash so hot it flash-fried everything in its path. A young man, likely caught mid-scroll on whatever the Roman equivalent of TikTok, had his brain vitrified—literally turned into glass. The heat was so intense and the cooling so rapid that his grey matter became shiny, hardened, and... Read more

2025-04-01T17:23:39-04:00

If you haven’t seen Severance, it’s a chilling little workplace dystopia where employees voluntarily undergo a procedure that splits their consciousness. Their “innie” only knows the workplace—an eerie corporation called Lumon, filled with cryptic rituals and a sinister “Break Room” where employees are forced to atone for wrongdoing. Their “outie” lives the rest of life, blissfully unaware of the cubicle purgatory they’ve signed up for. It’s equal parts existential nightmare and corporate satire. Now, swap the office for a church... Read more

2025-03-25T17:26:39-04:00

The Orphan Crushing Machine isn’t real—but it should be. Or rather, it should be talked about as if it were, because in many ways, it is. The phrase comes from a 2020 tweet by @pookleblinky that cut straight through America’s cruelty theater with one sharp line: “Every heartwarming human interest story in America is like ‘he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine’ and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why... Read more

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