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Finding Something that Eats God
On the firing of Julie Moore from my alma mater
May 5 • 
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Revival IS You
Revival is complex ... but it gets a lot simpler when we take ourselves out of the center of the story.
Apr 5 • 
Sara Billups
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Books Can Bust You Up
I have my list of compulsions and illusions, and you have yours.
Jan 24 • 
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For Short Days & Bookish Nights
Again, I must ask too much of you, Harry.
Dec 21, 2022 • 
Sara Billups
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Healing, over donuts
The beating heart of our spiritual formation
Dec 10, 2022 • 
Sara Billups
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Testing 1, 2, 3...
A place that lets Orphaned Believers hop off the wild ride of the algorithm.
Nov 3, 2022 • 
Sara Billups
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Heavenly Bodies
Slept-in-beds and purity culture kids
Sep 16, 2022 • 
Sara Billups
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Introducing: Orphaned Believers, the Cover Reveal!
Searching for a new way to participate in the story of God.
Jul 27, 2022 • 
Sara Billups
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Will the last person leaving evangelicalism turn out the lights?
No one wants to be the straggler hanging around when their friends are at the afterparty. So why stay?
Jun 17, 2022 • 
Sara Billups
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Spike the Punch
You have permission to call yourself a writer—without a book deal or byline.
May 2, 2022 • 
Sara Billups
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Super-Natural
We should not be surprised by manifestations of good or evil.
Apr 1, 2022 • 
Sara Billups
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Gen X Tears are Gen Z Tears
What if we are our own arrival fallacy?
Feb 4, 2022 • 
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Bitter Scroll
Bitter Scroll
If you're a 90s kid who loved Kurt Cobain even though you were steeped in True-Love-Waits Evangelicalism (with a touch of Nationalist fervor), then Bitter Scroll is for you.
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If you're a 90s kid who loved Kurt Cobain even though you were steeped in True-Love-Waits Evangelicalism (with a touch of Nationalist fervor), then Bitter Scroll is for you.

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