If God handpicks who gets saved and damns the rest before they're born — what exactly are you preaching to the homeless?

Acts 17:11 is the most misquoted verse in evangelical epistemology. The Bereans weren't model students — they were skeptics. And that changes everything about how you're supposed to read a book like Richardson's.

I stopped for gas in Flagstaff. Rain coming down. A man on a bench who wasn't trying to perform sadness — just too exhausted to hide it. I saw what most of us drive past.