
Religious Trauma on the Young Calvinist Bus
Yes, I knew I had broken the rules, and I admitted I’d made bad choices. But that was not the end of it. I was

Yes, I knew I had broken the rules, and I admitted I’d made bad choices. But that was not the end of it. I was

What I’ve learned from Minnesotans is that we take neighborism seriously. There is no illusion of safety here – we have realized we can’t buy

The Bertsch house stands shoulder to shoulder with many others, all well-maintained and landscaped. Passersby would hardly pay it much attention. But should they pause

In conversing with resistant conservative Christians, it probably won’t work to start with details about polar icecaps, the fate of some endangered salamander, or a

When sovereignty is used in church, it is typically code for a God who is distant, enigmatic, and unaccountable.

To bear God’s image is not a description of capacity. It is a description of relationship. Human beings are made to reflect God’s character, to

I spent a full semester during my doctoral program in a supervised study of the book of Matthew, and I can confirm from my experience

That conversation transformed my muddle into stark clarity. Belief was the key, and I was a believer. The next day, I sought out Dov Wartofsky

If industrial fracking sends pressurized liquid underground to loosen and harvest fossil fuels, “attentional fracking” does the same thing to our minds. Every algorithm trying