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Road Away from God: How Love Finds Us Even As We Walk Away

Road Away from God: How Love Finds Us Even As We Walk Away

for all the disillusioned disciples walking the road to nowhere

2022

Jonathan Martin

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Jonathan Martin

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Mar 17, 2023

U2’s latest is not so much a demand as an invitation to “surrender.” But will you want to?

Rock and roll is generally about defiance — defying rules, defying gravity, defying age. U2, in particular, is climb-the-mountain…

U2’s latest is not so much a demand as an invitation to “surrender.” But will you want to?

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Dec 14, 2022

Dave Chappelle vs. Dave Chappelle

In the highest compliment that I could imagine paying to any comedian, Dave Chappelle is the only one I can think of…who has never lost. He…

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Dec 7, 2022

How Yellowstone walks the line between great…and operatically dumb

I can think of no artifact in recent pop culture memory as confounding or outright baffling as Yellowstone. Like “Two-Face” of Batman…

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Sep 24, 2020

“She opened not her mouth”: on Breonna Taylor and the quest to make America unrepentant again

Breonna Taylor is dead — not as a character in fiction, or as a symbol or allegory of anything. Her death is a thing to be grieved on its…

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Sep 10, 2020

hollow President, trojan horse: why Trump is not our greatest threat

Two years ago, I sparred publicly with Jerry Falwell Jr. for a week or two, igniting a heated debate on campus at Liberty University that…

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Human Parts

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Jun 20, 2020

Gods and Histories at War in America

The monsters are surfacing, and we wait to see who will win

Storm clouds shroud an electrical storm of the coast of Byron Bay at night.

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Human Parts

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Jun 3, 2020

Choose Your Own Reality

Our competing realities share one thing in common: they invite us to undergo the demything of America

Choose Your Own Reality

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May 29, 2020

on reality and revelation: for George Floyd.

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was…

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May 8, 2020

two different videos, two different realities

It happened in the middle of the day. Two videos set the internet ablaze this week, for very different reasons. One, filmed in broad…

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Mar 12, 2018

Why yes, I DO pray for President Trump (on hoping for his salvation…& my own)

“But do you PRAY for President Trump?” As a church leader who has been outspoken about the Trump phenomenon, that is the first question…

Jonathan Martin

Jonathan Martin

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author of The Road Away from God, How to Survive a Shipwreck & Prototype. Director of Center for Spiritual Life at DePauw University. jonathanmartinwords.com

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