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The Cat Is Alive. Please Stop Asking Questions.

Seal a cat in a box with a mechanism that may or may not kill...

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Solomon’s Paradox: Everyone’s Deceived but Us

King Solomon had a reputation for wisdom. People came to him with disputes, impossible questions,...

September 08, 2026

Noah Was Never About the Animals

Every generation of religious fear merchants eventually climbs into the ark. “The world mocked Noah...

September 01, 2026

Why Faith Never Closes the Loop

Ever leave a show halfway through a season and feel like it’s still watching you?...

August 2026

August 25, 2026

When Certainty Needs Fear

Benjamin Franklin once invented a musical instrument so strange and beautiful that people decided it...

August 18, 2026

In the Beginning, Incest Was the Best

There are certain questions biblical literalism would probably prefer you stop asking somewhere around third...

August 11, 2026

The First Proof-Texter in the Bible Was Satan

Nugget Theology There's a particular kind of Christian comment that's instantly recognizable. You make a...

July 2026

July 15, 2026

The Church Keeps You in the Helicopter

Holding Water Everything goes wrong at the moment we name it. The chaos is real....

June 2026

June 02, 2026

How Evangelicalism Trains People to Fear Reality

There's a strange moment that happens to a lot of people leaving Evangelicalism. You expect...

May 2026

May 26, 2026

The Bootstrap Paradox of Faith

There is a moment in Interstellar that has tied people into knots for years. Cooper...

May 12, 2026

Why Humans Need Stories That Don’t Pretend to Be God

Christians love mocking mythology. Zeus throwing lightning bolts. Thor with a hammer. Athena popping out...

April 2026

April 28, 2026

Tom Bombadil and the God Who Won’t Manage Your Life

Years ago I read The Fellowship of the Ring to my kids before bed. Hobbits...

April 21, 2026

Please Remain Seated

Life, as Arthur Schopenhauer once suggested, is a bus ride—not a scenic tour or a...

April 07, 2026

What the Hell, Rob Bell

This isn’t a theory. It’s a timeline. Rob Bell built a career passing off borrowed...

April 02, 2026

Jesus Loves You, Now Shut Up

How Christianity Perfected the Thought-Terminating Cliché Every culture has its slogans. Politicians toss them around...

March 2026

March 31, 2026

The End of Suspension of Disbelief

Somewhere in the last stretch of months, my suspension of disbelief quietly died. No shattering...

February 2026

February 14, 2026

What Evangelical Churches Were Really Teaching About Love

Before you could get married in many evangelical churches, you had to complete a small...

February 03, 2026

John Winebrenner and the Birth of the Evangelical Hustle

You’ve probably never heard of John Winebrenner. There’s a reason for that. He’s not the...

January 2026

January 27, 2026

Revelation Came and Went. We Kept the Machinery.

The world is burning. That’s no longer a fringe observation—it’s background noise. Ecological collapse, political...

December 2025

December 30, 2025

Chloroform in Paper and How We Sedated Faith

Mark Twain once dropped the hammer on the Book of Mormon, calling it “chloroform in...

November 2025

November 25, 2025

Why I’d Rather Sit with a Skeptic than a Saint

Transcendentalism and I would probably make decent drinking buddies. Not best friends. Not partners in...

November 20, 2025

The Church Isn’t the Bride — She’s the Whore

If Christianity were a marriage, it’d be the kind that ends in a true-crime podcast....

October 2025

October 14, 2025

From Travelogue to Apocalypse

The Old Testament is a chaotic road trip—full of divine temper tantrums, bad decisions, and...

October 07, 2025

Why We Can’t Quit the Lie

Sunday morning smells like coffee and false certainty. The lobby hums with “How are yous?”...

September 2025

September 16, 2025

How Worship Music Became Our Theological Safe Word

Sunday mornings in our home have a peculiar tradition: we turn on Christian radio—not to...

July 2025

July 15, 2025

Tragedy at Camp Mystic and the Cost of Negligent Faith

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help…” —Psalm...

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June 16, 2025

We Are Not Born As We Will Stay

Graduation season just wrapped. Three ceremonies in a matter of weeks—two college, one high school....

June 04, 2025

Faith Formation as a Rehearsal

Nathan Fielder’s HBO experiment exposes what happens when faith becomes a script: the church rehearses...

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May 14, 2025

You Can’t Serve Two Masters (But America Keeps Trying)

Let’s just say the quiet part out loud: nationalism and Christianity are not friends. They...

May 07, 2025

What Happens When You Stop Needing Jesus to Behave

This is what deconstruction actually looks like: not a rebellion, not a trend, not a...