A bank full of beggars

The Parcast Network’s Conspiracy Theories podcast recently did a four-episode deep dive into the supposed mysteries of the Vatican. While some parts were interesting and some were just silly, it opened with what I thought …

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Peace with Graham

Billy Graham is shown in this black and white image as he speaks.

One of my pastors offered a humorous shorthand for dealing with the complexities of defining American evangelicalism when I was a teenager. He repeated the joke, popular at the time, that an evangelical was anyone …

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There are artists in the church??!

The courtyard of an Emmanuel Baptist Church in Alexandria, LA.

To be honest, the title of this blog post pretty much describes how I feel being an artist within the evangelical church. In my experience, artists tend to live on the fringes of societal norms …

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Free Will, Election—or Both?

A lions head door knocker

I am not a theologian, nor did I attend Bible college. So, while it may be presumptuous for me to tackle the question of free will vs. election, I have been reading my Bible pretty …

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The Church is not the Church

White church against a sunrise sky with whispy clouds

I received this question on the Faith on View Facebook page a while back. I value your musings on this question because you have a diverse background and perspective which I feel enables you to …

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The Beautiful Shepherd

Good Shepherd, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, 425-50 CE, Ravena, Italy

Google’s AI, Gemini, just came to the same conclusion as I did… and I think the way Gemini put it was profound. Here is how it happened. A few years ago, I realized that our …

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Exvangelical: Peeps just in time for Easter

Three rows of Peeps marshmallow treats are shown in pink, yellow, and blue.

In 1953, Russian immigrant Sam Born purchased the Rodda Candy Company and promptly replaced the handcrafted marshmallow chick line with the cold mechanization of mass production to make Peeps. What was once the work of …

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