Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. - Master Yoda For the past 9 months or so I have taken more of an...

Two Children's Books about God Pictured above are two great kids books that our family owns. The first is Jesus Showed Us! by Brad Jersak...

Originally published Apr 27th. Some updates added at the bottom May 11th. Preliminary Points I'm a Learner. I am approaching this topic...

JK Rowling, famed author of the Harry Potter book series, is a great case study in this discussion on cancel culture. The Story Before...

In post #1 of this series I shared about Charles Murray as an extreme example of cancel culture in action, and in post #2 I looked at the...

As I stated in the first blog post of this series, I've been fascinated by the concept of cancel culture in the past few months and I've...

Nerding Out on Cancel Culture For some reason I've been nerding out recently on the topic of free speech and cancel culture, as well as...

One of the largest US mega-churches, led by Andy Stanley, one of the most influential US pastors, broke Christian internet recently when...

In my experience as Christians we are typically squeamish to evaluate the quality of another person's faith. We'll say things like "Their...

In the previous post in this series we talked about how the bible (and church history) are full of the failures of followers of God—and...

Analysts of societal trends say that there is a big wave of "de-churching" happening right now. Rates of church attendance are steadily...

In the previous blog post of this series we looked at the profound and possibly surprising ways the Christian movement started by Jesus...

The famous and late atheist Christopher Hitchens wrote a book in 2008 called "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything." Is his...

What should church be like? In Part 2 we cautioned against assuming that all churches are like the one you grew up in. In Part 3 we did a...

I can already picture some people gagging at this blog's title. "All roads lead to church?! What a nightmare!" For some the word "church"...

Please first read Part 1 of this series, as it is foundational for everything else I will say. When I hear someone say they hate...

Here's a fun fact you can bust out at your next social gathering. Did you know that the word "apology" has two meanings? The first...

For part 1 go here! For more on annihilationism read this.

2022 has potentially been the most spiritually eventful and transformative year of my life. I know that sounds like a big statement to...