The Reformed Church vs. the Reforming Church
Why do we call ourselves Reformed? Has the Reformation been hijacked by slavery to human authority and tradition? If so, what can we do about it?
Continue reading →Author: Michael Minkoff, Jr.
Ode to the Mother of My Children: A Birth Story
On Sunday evening, May 20, 2012, I went to bed at the normal hour. It had been a good sabbath. Vanessa was a few days past her due date, but this had given us time to take our membership vows at the church we had been attending since we moved to Marietta a few months before. […]
Continue reading →My Mother, More Blessing than Blessed
Once, when I was three or four, I came into the kitchen while my mother was washing dishes to tell her about my new toy car—how the steering wheel actually turned the front wheels, how the doors and even the hood and trunk opened. It was made of metal, with good heft. It was a […]
Continue reading →The Greatest Gift My Father Ever Gave Me
The greatest gift my father ever gave me freed me from years and years of bitterness, resentment, and addiction to failure.
Continue reading →We All Want to See God Suffer
Us to God: “It would bring me joy to see you suffer as I have suffered.”
God to Us: “I will gladly bear your suffering to bring you joy.”
How Christian Rationalism Turned Me Into a Psychopath, or A Biblical Defense of Feelings
An early adoption of Christian rationalism had me operating as a psychopath. Does the Bible give primacy to reason? Should the church?
Continue reading →Local Pastor, Probably Apostate, Refuses to Share Inspirational Meme
CLAYTON, OHIO—James Robbins, the probably apostate pastor of Clayton First Methodist Church, has refused on multiple occasions to evidence his love for Jesus by interacting with inspirational memes on Facebook. According to Suzanne Rigsby, one of the members of First Methodist, she knew the soon-to-be-damned Robbins was “skating on thin ice with the Lord” when […]
Continue reading →What this Unruly Father Learned from His Unruly Child
Memorizing Bible verses with my kids is one of the most frustrating and rewarding things I do. One of my kids particularly tests and teaches me.
Continue reading →A Black Guy Starts Talking to Two White Guys at an Atlanta Food Mart … I Couldn’t Believe What Happened Next
Last night, I was hanging out in southwest Atlanta with my friend Ben Hodges, who is actually the whitest kid I know. For example, I went over to his house so we could make a night of it going over my proposed edits for a chapter of his memoirs. I showed up around nine o’clock […]
Continue reading →The Problem of Evil has an “Evil” Problem
Whether it’s framed by heated personal anecdotes or cool-headed syllogisms, the problem of evil has always posed the thorniest challenge to belief in the Christian God. It runs something like this: The Bible says God is omnipotent, omniscient, and good. Yet there is evil in the world. So the Bible must be wrong about God: […]
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