by David Morris | Current Events, Lake Drive Books Events
God Is Not Mentioned in the Constitution. Its Founders Did Not Intend a Christian Republic. Kinda goes without saying, right? I’m sure most on the conservative right would deny that there’s a desire to make the United States Christian. They might say they are only...
by David Morris | Current Events, Lake Drive Books News
Dear Friend, We are living through an era of extraordinary religious self-absorption. Church life increasingly revolves around personality rather than practice, loyalty rather than love. Congregations fracture not over theology but over allegiance. Leaders are fawned...
by Lake Drive Reporter | Current Events, Identity, Lake Drive Books News, LGBTQ
In late 2023, Hulu released a powerful documentary, We Live Here: The Midwest, spotlighting LGBTQ+ families navigating life in America’s heartland. Among the featured voices were Lake Drive author Nia Chiaramonte and her wife Katie, whose striking story of...
by Marla Taviano | Current Events, Mental Health
So you’ve probably noticed there are a couple few things going on in the world right now. You’ve possibly sensed some tension, some anxiety, some angst. Maybe some racism, some misogyny, some white Christian Naziism. (And by “some” I mean a whole heck of a lot.)...
by David Morris | Current Events, Faith Deconstruction
I strongly encourage you to watch this powerful film from bestselling Jesus and John Wayne author and historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez and Carl Byker illustrating the reach of patriarchy and the devastation of women in the name of God and religion by so much of our...
by David Morris | Current Events, Faith Deconstruction
Lake Drive Books author Christa Brown recently published a Ms. Magazine article “Southern Baptists Pursue a Mission of Misogyny”. On the eve of the next annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention starting this Sunday, Brown calls out the SBC for...