Every time I hear “young people are going liturgical,” I ask for statistics. It’s always anecdotal and unfactual. Its been said for 30 years.

Man...I'm glad I'm a Wesleyan Arminian.

This is my lane of expertise so let me help you translate what AOC is saying here: It’s Marxism. She claims that the foundation of Western culture is “thin” and that culture is really nothing more than a perpetual state of evolution in response to material causes. Your

Again I say: I’m glad to be an Arminian-Wesleyan. #holylove

Wesley never treated preaching, prayer, and the sacraments as theological abstractions. They were remedies. Applied to the soul's sickness. Sin was pathology. Grace was medicine. This is the Wesleyan instinct that formed the soil Pentecostalism grew. And we forget it at our

The Protestant insistence on justification by faith does not cancel the therapeutic vision of the early Church Fathers. Wesley proved this. He held both together without compromise. The atonement declares the sinner righteous AND heals the soul's distortions. If our soteriology

Wesley for the win.

One of the most dangerous conditions in ministry is when genuine gifting operates through an unformed life. The gift functions, but it functions in isolation from character, accountability, and ongoing interior transformation. Because the gift still produces visible results, it

Eugene Peterson noticed that the word soul has been quietly displaced by the word self in how modern culture talks about persons. That shift carries more weight than it appears to. The soul, in its long theological usage, pointed toward the person in relation: to God, to others,

In 1911, the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Evanston, Illinois charged a "pew rental" fee. The most expensive seats in the house? 5-10 rows back in the middle. Nearly $7K in today's money. The cheap seats were in the very back of the sanctuary.

In just three centuries (AD 100 and 400) the West witnessed the sudden emergence of food rosters for citizens and non-citizens alike, aged-care facilities, free dignified burials, organised efforts to eradicate infanticide, attempts to undermine slavery, public hospitals, and

“My family was super religious, but I rejected it young.” That story gets told a lot—but it’s rare. Just 2% say they had a very religious childhood and left early. In reality, religion is usually passed down. Your parents' faith tends to become your own.

"Inertia still rules American religion. Despite decades of change, most Americans remain in the same broad religious group they were raised in. Switching gets attention, but stability is still the norm." A new paid post on the newsletter today. graphsaboutreligion.com/p/inertia-stil…

I've got brand new data about American religion that was collected in October of 2025. And, folks... The share of Americans who are non-religious has dropped for the third year in a row. Atheists and agnostics are down to 5% each. Those are 2014 levels.

🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved

The 2025 Cooperative Election Study is out and there's even more evidence now that the rise of secularism has abated. Maybe even reversed. A new paid post on my newsletter today where I try to figure out why that's happening. Some really surprising data on Boomers and Gen X.

This is the part that keeps getting buried under the raw numbers. Hegseth spent months pressuring Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to remove four decorated colonels from the one-star promotion list. Two Black men. Two women. Driscoll refused, because their records demanded it. So

The more I read from 18th and 19th century Methodist theologians and from Christian theologians in the 1,700+ years before that, the more I realize how much ground modern Christianity (especially evangelical) in the west has ceded to Baptist theology and practice. That’s why so

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Esau came in from the field famished. The text says he saw the stew, asked for it, and traded his birthright on the spot. Then it adds the line that should haunt every reader: “thus Esau despised his birthright”. The Hebrew is bāzâh. He did not only barter. He scorned. He treated