The Approval Trap – Fear That Shaped My Faith for Years
I got out of a toxic relationship. It was with God. I do not say that for shock value. It is simply the most honest way I know how to describe it. For a long time, my inner life with God functioned like a relationship where love had to be earned. Approval could...
The Scopes Trial and the Birth of a Divide
In the summer of 1925, a small courtroom in Dayton, Tennessee became the stage for one of the most consequential legal and cultural confrontations in American history. A high school biology teacher, John T. Scopes, was charged with violating Tennessee’s Butler...
An Upside-Down Kingdom
I found myself in a recent conversation that felt heavier than I expected. It started casually. Coffee. Catching up. A friend talking about faith, culture, and the state of the world. At some point, the word radical came up. He said Christianity was supposed to be...