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2025-11-10T12:30:00-05:00

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Hosea vs. Hosanna

Last updated on: November 10, 2025 at 12:30 pm By Stuart Delony

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American Christianity has a soundtrack problem. We’ve got the praise playlist on repeat—loud, triumphant, and relentlessly upbeat. “Hosanna!” gets center stage. Palm branches wave, hands go up, lights flash, smoke machines hiss. It’s the church as pep rally. Victory is always a drumbeat away. But when you crank the Hosanna dial to 100 and rip out the lament channel entirely, what’s left isn’t faith. It’s helium. It floats, it squeaks, it looks festive, but it can’t hold weight. One poke... Read more

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2025-10-27T17:57:22-04:00

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The Gospel of Failing Up

Last updated on: October 27, 2025 at 5:57 pm By Stuart Delony

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The Cult of the Overrated America has a strange talent for turning mediocrity into mythology. We crown the loudest, not the smartest. The most confident, not the most capable. It’s why Bill Belichick — a man who hasn’t evolved since flip phones — gets hailed as a football genius, and Donald Trump — a man allergic to reading — got handed the keys to democracy. I live in Chapel Hill, where Belichick’s second coming at UNC dropped like every other... Read more

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We Are All Allentown Now

Last updated on: October 24, 2025 at 2:28 pm By Stuart Delony

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“Every child had a pretty good shot / To get at least as far as their old man got.” — Billy Joel, “Allentown” (1982) Billy Joel wrote Allentown about a factory town losing its heartbeat. Forty years later, it feels like a national anthem for the disillusioned. The assembly lines are gone, but the machinery of decay hums on. The dream sputtered out long ago, and we’re still pretending it’s alive—propping it up with slogans, cheap patriotism, and whatever’s left... Read more

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2025-10-15T12:29:50-04:00

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From Travelogue to Apocalypse

Last updated on: October 15, 2025 at 12:29 pm By Stuart Delony

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The Old Testament is a chaotic road trip—full of divine temper tantrums, bad decisions, and people repeatedly ignoring obvious red flags. (Oh look, a golden calf! Let’s worship that!) It’s a saga of migrations, exiles, wars, and prophetic weirdness. It doesn’t move in a straight line; it stumbles forward, backtracks, makes pit stops in Babylon, and occasionally sets entire cities on fire. It’s a travelogue—a messy, evolving account of faith that feels more like a journal of lessons learned (or... Read more

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2025-11-03T14:01:18-05:00

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Why We Can’t Quit the Lie

Last updated on: November 3, 2025 at 2:01 pm By Stuart Delony

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Sunday morning smells like coffee and false certainty. The lobby hums with “How are yous?” that mean “Don’t tell me,” and the band is tuning up for a setlist that promises transcendence in four chords or less. This is community—at least that’s what we call it. Strangers gather, eyes closed, arms raised, feeling connected because they’re singing the same song about the same invisible friend. It works. It really works. And it shouldn’t. None of this holds together without the... Read more

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Charismatics, Psychics, and Charlatans—Oh My!

Last updated on: September 25, 2025 at 4:33 pm By Stuart Delony

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When your prophetic word sounds suspiciously like a cold reading with extra Jesus. It’s Sunday morning. The lights are dimmed, the synth pad hums like the voice of God trying to warm up before a concert, and a pastor in skinny jeans declares, “I just feel in my spirit that someone here has been struggling with something big lately.” Cue the weeping. The amen. The cash app handle on the screen. Fast forward twelve hours. Somewhere in a dimly lit... Read more

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2025-09-25T16:35:51-04:00

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Survival Tips for Life in the Authoritarian Slow-Cooker

Last updated on: September 25, 2025 at 4:35 pm By Stuart Delony

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“Hypodermics on the shore, China’s under martial law / Rock and roller, cola wars—I can’t take it anymore.” Billy Joel belted that out in 1989 as a rapid-fire history lesson, a catalog of chaos. Back then it was background noise on the radio. Today, it sounds like prophecy. The Cold War is gone, but the chaos machine is still here—just with new headlines: Epstein files, ICE raids, $200 million ballrooms, tariffs, coups dressed up as patriotism—same breathless drumbeat, only now... Read more

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2025-09-21T15:04:33-04:00

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Ken Ham’s Polemic Problem

Last updated on: September 21, 2025 at 3:04 pm By Stuart Delony

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Ken Ham built a boat. Well, technically, he built a theme park shaped like a boat, complete with animatronic animals, pseudo-science dioramas, and a gift shop that peddles “God’s history” in bulk. Ham loves to remind us that “the Bible is a history book.” And if that’s true, it’s the worst history book ever written. No footnotes, no sources, and a plot that kicks off with magical trees and talking snakes. But that’s the problem with Ham and his literalist... Read more

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2025-09-21T15:03:25-04:00

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The Power of Pious PR

Last updated on: September 21, 2025 at 3:03 pm By Stuart Delony

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When I graduated high school, one of my closest friends left to be a Mormon missionary. He wasn’t devout. He wasn’t burning with the bosom for what Joseph Smith was selling. Honestly, he was just a kid doing what his parents wanted. Three months in, he was diagnosed with cancer and forced to come home. A year later, he was gone. I thought I was prepared for his funeral. I wasn’t. What I saw that day has haunted me ever... Read more

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2025-08-28T15:54:39-04:00

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How Worship Music Became Our Theological Safe Word

Last updated on: August 28, 2025 at 3:54 pm By Stuart Delony

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Sunday mornings in our home have a peculiar tradition: we turn on Christian radio—not to worship, but to wonder what the hell happened. It’s a ritual of cringe. A mix of auto-tuned piety and theological cosplay that would be hilarious if it weren’t so tragic. There’s a common thread in the lyrics—one that wraps itself around modern Christianity like a velvet noose: Jesus is King. God is sovereign. We are nothing. Repeat ad nauseam until the beat drops. It’s not... Read more

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