I don’t know if there was a single moment when I realized that I had these feelings. I truly had believed that they would go away. “I’m a Christian; this isn’t possible.” I thought I had a mental disorder or worse: was possessed. Why would I ever tell anyone? Then began the sleepless nights of praying: “God, I’m sorry. Please forgive me for whatever it is I did to be cursed with such an awful disease.” “God, I promise I... Read more
Lyndon Baines Johnson Recordings on Selma: This film collects archival material from the LBJ Library, the Miller Center, the Tennessee State Archives, the Internet Archive, and the Library of Congress. [via Chris Heller who is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic.] “It’s outrageous what’s on TV. It looks like that man is in charge of the country.” via The Atlantic Read more
[Photo via Caleb Morris] To hear the rest subscribe here and I’ll shoot it over to you today via email. Episode 001 | I sat down with Donald Miller the other day and we chatted about relationships, fame, starting over, and of course his new book “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy” Okay, here it is. The podcast. I said originally that it’d be out mid-November, and then I changed it to mid-January, and it’s now mid-February… Better late... Read more
A few days ago I was listening to this podcast called “This American Life,” if you haven’t heard of it before this, then you’re welcome. But they feature real life stories, from a journalistic slant using a first-person narrative. In this particular episode they begin the show speaking about those who are suffer from what’s called called the “Truman Show Delusion,” highlighting an unnamed professor who has come to believe that he is a contestant of a reality game show. The host of the show Ira Glass... Read more
[This is of course not about all progressives. There are many amazing progressives not-so-well-known and very well-known, I’m friends with both and. Having said that…] I’m not a “progressive Christian.” I think that I was drawn to progressivism because it was evangelicalism, just repackaged. It was the same people, same faces, doing the same things, with the same style, using the same exact culture. They have conferences, they meet in churches, have their own celebrities… But they’re also majority-white, Eurocentric authoritarians,... Read more
[Photo from @dankadanka] #StoriesFromTheDechurched is a series with no end date in mind collecting stories from those who have left the church, are considering leaving the church, or are staying in the church but have deep frustrations with their church. [If you or anyone else has a story you’d like to share feel free to email it over to me at [email protected]/blogs/andygill] I loved my worship team family. We had dinners together, hung out outside church, babysat each other’s kids, celebrated birthdays, smoked pipes, and... Read more
#StoriesFromTheDechurched is a series with no end date in mind collecting stories from those who have left the church, are considering leaving the church, or are staying in the church but have deep frustrations with their church. [If you or anyone else has a story you’d like to share feel free to email it over to me at [email protected]/blogs/andygill] I don’t know what it’s like to not go to church on a Sunday. I grew up in the church. My earliest social interactions were... Read more
#StoriesFromTheDechurched is a series with no end date in mind collecting stories from those who have left the church, are considering leaving the church, or are staying in the church but have deep frustrations with their church. [If you or anyone else has a story you’d like to share feel free to email it over to me at [email protected]/blogs/andygill] I grew up the son of a preacher in the Bible belt, which is known for its “beautiful places and smiling faces.” But my Southern... Read more
The “n-word” is one of the most divisive and emotionally charged words within our U.S. context. I think social critic Ta-Nehisi Coates sums it up better than most stating in The New York Times, “If you could choose one word to represent the centuries of bondage, the decades of terrorism, the long days of mass rape, the totality of white violence that birthed the black race in America, it would be ‘n—–.’ ” Martin Luther starts off the Small Catechism saying, “Dear God, what a... Read more
“I’m at a point in my life where everything is falling apart and everything is coming together at the same time.” Coming to the end of 2014 I found myself depleted, exhausted, and completely burnt out. I’m in that season of life that I can’t afford to not keep going – but I haven’t had the energy to keep going. I think some people look at me and assume that I’m stronger than I actually am. But most days I’m the weakest and most insecure person they’ll... Read more
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