Since this is 2020, an election year in the United States, there’s going to be a lot of talk on social media feeds about ideology. It won’t just be political ideology, nor will it be limited to political issues. That’s because in 2020, we are convinced that political opinions are just the surface-level expression of a deeper ideology held by […]
I expect this will be my last overtly political post for a while, because I feel like I’ve been way too politically-minded recently, and it’s taken away from developing a real closer relationship with God. But I also see the state of the nation we live in, and with it the state of the American church. Just as the country […]
I don’t post on Twitter very often, but I do scroll through my feed regularly — often to the detriment of my own sanity. But what I’ve seen on social media these days has made it hard to just observe how people are talking about the horrific mass shootings that happened in El Paso and Dayton last weekend. Everyone — […]
In the middle of the 19th century, my great-great-great-grandfather Phil came to the United States from the country of Ireland. Today, Ireland is a well-off European nation. But if you’re familiar with Irish history, you may know that the middle of the 19th century was one of the worst times Ireland has ever known. The Great Famine (or the Potato […]
2016 was a year full of bitter controversy as a contentious election between two clowns incendiary candidates brought a lot of very sensitive issues to the forefront, and 2017 only intensified it. More often than not, right now I tend to stay away from commenting on political posts, but I’ve seen people get in vicious arguments over political opinions that […]
You couldn’t find two people from history that were more opposite than Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the founder of Christianity, and the Emperor Constantine the Great, the founder of Christendom. Jesus was a humble Jewish preacher, born and raised in poverty, in the backwoods hick town of Nazareth; Constantine was a Roman emperor, born to a prominent military commander in […]
Just another jar of clay, named Clay. I’m a Christ-follower who messes up a lot, blessed to be a husband and youth worker, trying to share the message that saved me. My aim with this blog is to explore how we ought to live and think as Christ-followers in the midst of the realities of today’s world.
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