Author: Jared Stacy

• Evangelical: Leave It or Love It?

  There’s not one verse in the Bible where God says to the church: “and you shall call yourselves, “evangelicals”. Not one. There’s not even a verse for “Christian”. That ancient…

  

• Jesus & Jedi Master

  One of my favorite places at Walt Disney World is the Sci-Fi diner. In true Disney fashion, the restaurant is themed like you’re outside. You walk in, and suddenly you’re…

  

• A House Built On Sand

  More has been stolen from survivors by the SBC than I gave to the SBC as a pastor. I spent a decade in the SBC. I studied in its seminaries,…

  

• Are Evangelicals A Threat To Democracy Today?

  This week, The Atlantic published a piece on how politics have poisoned American evangelicalism. It’s a good read, and I don’t see an end to this sort of analysis anytime…

  

• The Good, The Bad, and Conspiracies

  Conspiracies aren’t just political, they’re moral. Baked into conspiracy theories is a persistent vision or construction of good and evil. For many people, this is an immediate benefit. But it…

  

• Spilling The Tea On Evangelicalism

  I’ve been wanting to write this article for awhile. There’s something about tea that makes for a really good analogy to explain the wild theological ethics coming out of American…

  

• The Church’s Word in War

  The ghosts of the 20th century, the ones that haunt us today, wear swastikas. Our modern world is one misstep away from nuclear war. And it is a world born…

  

• Better Talk On Deconstruction

  I hesitate to wade into these waters. But it’s a risk worth taking. Plus there’s a Disney analogy ahead, so there’s that. Some see a threat to evangelicalism in the…

  

• January 6: A Failed Apocalypse

  January 6th was a theological event. Just a month before, the Jericho March rallies in DC featured nationalist prayers. They declared God’s will was to reinstate Donald Trump. At the…

  

• The Moral Problem Of Seeing Nazi Germany Everywhere

  The Third Reich is everywhere in today’s political pandemic rhetoric. This rhetoric warns that the pandemic is turning America into Hitler’s Germany. A constant comparison to Nazi Germany is a…