Category Archives: Simplicity

When Right-Hearted Christians Defend Wrong-Headed Theology

June 19th, 2013

Someone had let a whirlwind into the room. Elder George Merriweather gazed at his Rolex. They’d been at this for only 10 minutes, but it felt like 10 hours. He glanced at Deaconess Lisbeth Cartwright and sighed. The former Miss America candidate from Connecticut nodded, and her blonde curls went bouncing. Westminster Wesleyan had endured [...]

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Why I Didn’t Go to Church on Sunday

June 10th, 2013

Yesterday was a Sunday. I skipped church. I didn’t go because I knew what the message topic would be, and I’m burned out on that topic. Seared to a crackly crunch burned out. That the topic just happens to coincide with a major initiative push within the church only further carbonized me. Honestly, I think [...]

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Bizarro Church, and What We Can Do to Save American Christianity

May 29th, 2013

I grew up in an age of comic book superheroes. Spider-Man debuted just months before I was born, and as a child, I endlessly watched the old George Reeves Superman TV show. About four years before my own debut, at a point that can only be considered a creative nadir, the writers of the Superman [...]

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