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 was hired to photograph a hospital event. A little boy in a wagon smiled at me. A week later, Grandpa called with news that changed how I see everything.
Two serious theologians debated infant baptism for two hours at Orlando Grace Church. They were both right about the wrong thing. Meanwhile, CCV is handing out free gifts to first-time visitors and checking kids into classrooms like a theme park. Nobody's asking the harder question.
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.
A man asleep in the gravel. The word CHURCH in metal letters four feet away. I pulled over because the frame said everything words have been failing to say.
A young man out of jail kept telling me about someone named Albert. I stopped by the shelter to meet him. That visit changed the trajectory of my giving.