Heretic Hereafter Podcast

Tired of waiting for the next installment? Get the Kindle edition only for $4.99! Or, if you want a hard copy, order a paperback from Ingram Spark (international shipping available.)Heretic Hereafter presents "Manly Man of God" is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Heretic Hereafter at heretichereafter.substack.com/subscribe

Tired of waiting for the next installment? Get the Kindle edition only for $4.99! Or, if you want a hard copy, order a paperback from Ingram Spark (international shipping available.)Heretic Hereafter presents "Manly Man of God" is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Heretic Hereafter at heretichereafter.substack.com/subscribe

Tired of waiting for the next installment? Get the Kindle edition only for $4.99! Or, if you want a hard copy, order a paperback from Ingram Spark (international shipping available.)Heretic Hereafter presents "Manly Man of God" is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Heretic Hereafter at heretichereafter.substack.com/subscribe

AUTHOR’S NOTE:This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.Missed a previous part? Find the TABLE OF CONTENTS here!KassandraHad I been the type that believed in the providence of an omnipotent God, I would have thanked Him for my accidental stumble into Brodie’s room the week before. I would’ve thanked God that Brodie was the trusting...

Tired of waiting for the next installment? Get the Kindle edition only for $4.99! Or, if you want a hard copy, order a paperback from Ingram Spark (international shipping available.)Heretic Hereafter presents "Manly Man of God" is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Heretic Hereafter at heretichereafter.substack.com/subscribe

Tired of waiting for the next installment? Get the Kindle edition only for $4.99! Or, if you want a hard copy, order a paperback from Ingram Spark (international shipping available.)Heretic Hereafter presents "Manly Man of God" is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Heretic Hereafter at heretichereafter.substack.com/subscribe

Tired of waiting for the next installment? Get the Kindle edition only for $4.99! Or, if you want a hard copy, order a paperback from Ingram Spark (international shipping available.)Heretic Hereafter presents "Manly Man of God" is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Heretic Hereafter at heretichereafter.substack.com/subscribe

Tired of waiting for the next installment? Get the Kindle edition only for $4.99! Or, if you want a hard copy, order a paperback from Ingram Spark (international shipping available.)Heretic Hereafter presents "Manly Man of God" is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Heretic Hereafter at heretichereafter.substack.com/subscribe

Tired of waiting for the next installment? Get the Kindle edition only for $4.99! Or, if you want a hard copy, order a paperback from Ingram Spark (international shipping available.)Heretic Hereafter presents "Manly Man of God" is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Heretic Hereafter at heretichereafter.substack.com/subscribe

Tired of waiting for the next installment? Get the Kindle edition only for $4.99! Or, if you want a hard copy, order a paperback from Ingram Spark (international shipping available.)Heretic Hereafter presents "Manly Man of God" is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Heretic Hereafter at heretichereafter.substack.com/subscribe

Tired of waiting for the next installment? Get the Kindle edition only for $4.99! Or, if you want a hard copy, order a paperback from Ingram Spark (international shipping available.)Heretic Hereafter presents "Manly Man of God" is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Heretic Hereafter at heretichereafter.substack.com/subscribe

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As a kid, when non-Evangelical adults would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I was always confused. Why ask when the correct answer was clearly “homemaker”? Certain aspects of the job were appealing. I could exert control over the domestic sphere—things like meal planning, child rearing, decor, and my personal favorite, home organization. There’d be no pointless meetings and good job security. Fresh out of college, I was lucky to marry a great guy, who (after I put him through grad school) earned enough to support our fledgling family...

I was having my monthly “Should I go to grad school?” meltdown last week while at coffee with a friend. Faced with my midlife panic, V calmly asked, “What would you even go to grad school for?” So, I presented this month’s top five: teacher, social worker, nurse, therapist, or pastor. (And “nurse” is mostly because I’ve been watching The Pitt, not due to any natural aptitude.) Heretic Hereafter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.V, with her charact...

Did you miss part one of this topic? You can find it here. Confession: I hate the phrase “scarcity mindset.” I do a fair amount of work in lefty education advocacy circles and if there’s two things that are guaranteed at any such gathering, it will be a.) some weird ice breaker involving coloring and b.) the phrase “scarcity mindset.”Is there a $100 million dollar budget deficit in our school district? That’s just a scarcity mindset. Our afterschool program is being cut? Seek abundance! This was especially egregious during pandemic school closures. I was stunned...

For many of us growing up, “Christian” was synonymous with “Republican.” It was a given that we followers of Christ supported a political party that was not only anti-abortion, but pro-free market capitalism. Even long after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the menace of godless communists and their authoritarian regimes loom large in our collective imagination. I was raised to believe in government incompetence as much as the American Dream. America was the great meritocracy, and a comfortable, middle-class life was available to anyone with the gumption to work for it. In my young life, th...

Despite many pastoral proclamations of God’s love, church is not a place I learned to love myself. Instead, I learned to distrust myself, see myself as evil, and feel guilty/responsible for Jesus’ murder. Prayers of confession were meant to assuage this constant guilt, but they couldn’t touch my underlying Calvinist beliefs that I was bad.At home, I witnessed this shame fuel both my mother’s religiosity and her alcoholism. It makes sense, in a supremely messed up way: if a person truly believes they are evil, then alcohol and drugs are one of the few...