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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

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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…

8 min readMar 17, 2023

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

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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…

5 min readDec 14, 2022

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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…

6 min readDec 7, 2022

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“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…

8 min readSep 24, 2020

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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…

17 min readSep 10, 2020

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Human Parts

Gods and Histories at War in America

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

6 min readJun 20, 2020

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

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Choose Your Own Reality

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

18 min readJun 3, 2020

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Choose Your Own Reality

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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…

10 min readMay 29, 2020

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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…

7 min readMay 8, 2020

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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…

10 min readMar 12, 2018

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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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