2025-06-03T16:12:02-04:00

Welcome to America, Where Whiteness is a Visa Congratulations, white South Africans — your MAGA cosplay has earned you a one-way ticket to the land of exceptionalism, expletives, and ex-president worship. While actual refugees—fleeing war, famine, and real persecution—sit in bureaucratic purgatory, Trump’s America has rolled out the red (white) carpet for a very specific group: Afrikaners. Yes, the descendants of apartheid architects are now being classified as “persecuted,” and no, this isn’t satire. Not yet, anyway. In a move... Read more

2025-06-05T19:59:14-04:00

America has questions. Big ones. And no, we’re not talking about the theology behind “worship protests” or why Christian influencers suddenly all own ranches. We’re asking the real question: What is Sean Feucht hiding under that combover? Let’s be clear—there’s no shame in losing your hair. Happens to the best of us. Hairlines retreat like evangelical integrity during an election year. But the scandal isn’t the balding—it’s the aggressive, ramen-styled deception attempting to pass for a hairstyle. That golden wave... Read more

2025-06-03T20:24:40-04:00

Nathan Fielder’s HBO experiment exposes what happens when faith becomes a script: the church rehearses piety but forgets how to live it. Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal is part satire, part social experiment, and part existential crisis disguised as premium cable. It’s awkward. It’s brilliant. And if you’re paying attention, it’s also a pitch-perfect metaphor for how American Christianity tries to form people of faith—through rigid control, endless scripting, and a pathological fear of unpredictability. It’s not a show about religion.... Read more

2025-05-25T17:26:33-04:00

America loves its myths. Apple pie. Bootstraps. A flag planted on the moon. But perhaps no myth is more enduring—or more damning—than the one that says we’re a Christian nation. You’ve heard it before: “This country was founded on biblical values!” Which, I assume, means something like loving your neighbor, welcoming the stranger, turning the other cheek, and—oh right—relentlessly expanding your territory by any means necessary. Manifest Destiny with a side of John 3:16. Enter Memorial Day. A national moment... Read more

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


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