Archive - The Beaty Beat

When Deconstruction Becomes a Brand

Once any spiritual movement becomes a hashtag #spiritualmovement, it can lose its power, and start to feel like the very thing it set out to repudiate.

Jul 17 •

June 2025

How Birdwatching Will Revive Your Soul

My favorite hobby teaches us to pay attention to the world as it really is.

Jun 12 •

May 2025

5 Follow-Up Notes on the Q Conference

Highlights from my recent conversation with Kaitlyn Schiess at the Holy Post.

May 16 •

April 2025

What Happened to the Q Conference?

How a gathering for common-good Christian leaders has seemingly embraced a more divisive, ideologically charged vision of cultural engagement.

Apr 10 •

March 2025

Christian Book Publishers Should Protect Authors Against Meta and AI

The recent Meta LibGen piracy scandal has spiritual fallout for human creators.

Mar 27 •

Let's Stop Saying We Live in a Secular Age

Correcting a popular reading of Charles Taylors's 2008 tome + life updates!

Mar 7 •

November 2024

Confessing My Political Idolatry

No one leader or party can save us. This gives me a strange reason to hope.

Nov 6, 2024 •

October 2024

You Can Trust Yourself to Make Good Decisions

How I'm thinking about the future and God's will amid a big life transition.

Oct 24, 2024 •

Rebuilding a Sexual Ethic after Purity Culture

A conversation with Dr. Camden Morgante, author of the new book "Recovering from Purity Culture."

Oct 17, 2024 •

September 2024

Don't Let Go of Your Bosom Friends

40 Practical Tips and Bits of Lady Wisdom Upon Turning 40 (Part II)

Sep 27, 2024 •

Live a Life You Don't Need Rescuing From

40 Practical Tips and Bits of Lady Wisdom Upon Turning 40 (Part I)

Sep 13, 2024 •

August 2024

Why Shannan Martin Had to Leave Her Once-Beloved Church

The best-selling author has included the unique UMC congregation in her books. Everything changed when a lay leader turned out to be a registered sex…

Aug 29, 2024 •

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