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Start Here.
This isn’t a brand. It’s a build. The People’s Revival is being built in public — unfinished, unpolished, and unapologetically rooted in the actual words of Jesus. If you’re looking for church performance, partisan Christianity, or spiritual consumerism, you won’t find it here. If you’re tired of: Christian nationalism dressed up as faith Moral grandstanding… Continue reading
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The 12 Marks of Radical Revival
We are a People’s Revival — a movement of the Spirit for the working class, the overlooked, and anyone fed up with being used by churches, billionaires, and false prophets. We follow the red letters of Jesus, not institutional rules or fancy buildings. We gather to wake people up, to expose the powers that exploit… Continue reading
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Thoughts From the Back of Beyond
The description available from within a reality need not exhaust the reality producing the phenomenon. Read that again. Because I think there’s a door hiding in it. Imagine a creature that lives in only two dimensions. Not metaphorically. Its entire universe is a flat sheet. Length and width. No height. Now draw a circle around… Continue reading
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Campfire Tales
I’ve come to a decision. After having spent 30 years in the church system, I left it and its inherent subculture. To be honest, I was always an outsider anyway, but I was still coloring in the pages they gave me. I became a novelty act to them, churches that wanted to be “edgy” would… Continue reading
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The Pentecostal Pallet
You know, as a working class gen-x guy, let me say this. My dad went to work and came home, and that was it. No throwing the ball, or “How’s you day, pal?”, that didn’t exist. Pretty much my only interactions with him were when I needed disciplined. Back in those days, the belt was… Continue reading
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What they don’t tell you.
“Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?Hot ashes for trees?Hot air for a cool breeze?Cold comfort for change?Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?”— Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd Yeah.They did. They took something wild—something that walked straight into the mess, touched… Continue reading
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Guest article: Confessions of an Exvangelical
By Jamye Semons I was a Full Gospel pastor’s wife. I was evangelical, anti-LGBTQ+, “pro-life” and pro- Second Amendment, and voted for my favorite conservative politicians thinking they would surely turn things around and give our country back to God. Then, my marriage fell apart. I found myself in the home and arms of a… Continue reading
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Revival doesn’t come from politics.
They said revival had started. After Charlie Kirk was killed, the headlines, the networks, the loudest voices in the Christian right—they started using that word again. Revival. Like something holy had been sparked. Like God was moving. But let’s be honest. That’s not revival. That’s politics wearing a cross. Revival doesn’t rise out of outrage… Continue reading
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The Great Falling Away
Everybody’s reacting to the latest headline, trying to pin the “falling away” on a single moment, a single act, a single news cycle. But Paul didn’t describe apostasia as a reaction. He described it as a shift. A turning. A defection that happens while everything still looks religious on the surface. The mistake is thinking… Continue reading
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3 Red Letter Practices You Can Adopt Right Now
A lot of people are angry with the church right now. Honestly, much of that anger is justified. We’ve watched religion chase power, protect its own institutions, and often ignore the very people Jesus spent His life serving. But here’s the question I keep asking: What if the answer isn’t arguing with the church? What… Continue reading
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