Archive - Bitter Scroll

Last night, we stopped pretending

This election is turning into a disaster for America. What about the church?

Jun 28, 2024 •

In God We Trump

This one’s for the mourners of the Trumpifcation of the Church

Apr 9, 2024 •

It's time to share some big news

Jul 18, 2023 •

My Beautiful Christians

Do you come here often? Can I buy you another rum and Coke? ... Do you know I love the Ten Commandments?

Aug 3, 2024 •

Religious But Not Spiritual

Dear Nick Cave and Sally Rooney: Christians might need you to save us

Jan 6, 2024 •

Energy Vampires and Friend Edits

Why living in "no contact" culture means we don’t want to touch the Church.

Mar 2, 2024 •

A feast of doubts

This next track is dedicated to the skeptics, lovers & dreamers...

Sep 15, 2023 •

I am voting this way because I have read the prophets

There was no red America, no blue America—there was only us in a 26-foot U-Haul on a desolate stretch of Wyoming.

Nov 3, 2024 •

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 •

Finding Something that Eats God

On the firing of Julie Moore from my alma mater

May 5, 2023 •

Confessions of a politics addict

In the run-up to the election, can we be non-anxious?

Sep 21, 2024 •

Books Can Bust You Up

I have my list of compulsions and illusions, and you have yours.

Jan 24, 2023 •

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