A review of Sarah Stein Lubrano's Don't Talk About Politics — a book about how minds change through action, relationship, and infrastructure, and what that means for church, discipleship, and where I put my words.
The text never says God killed them. What killed Ananias and Sapphira is stranger — and closer to home — than a smiting.
What I've been reading and watching last month.
Review of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026)
July Edition of The Perch
On the second of July, a few blocks from Independence Hall, the bell at Philadelphia's Christ Church rang out more than fifty times,
The lectionary hands us the seven woes this week. Read next to a yard full of “convicted felon” bumper stickers and “Jesus is Lord” signs, they land on American white Christian nationalism.
On hiding places, faulty antennas, and better questions
Does Genesis 1:27, 'male and female he created them,' prove a strict gender binary? A closer look at merism, the Hebrew, and what an ancient creation poem is actually for.
Our culture clings to a stubborn conviction about rest: that a person must purchase rest through exhaustion.
Disclosure: Rohadi is an online friend, and I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Most devotionals ask you
Four questions for testing any word from God
Sermon preached 2026-06-07 · Everything We Carry - A Stewardship of Everything