close reads of the stories we live inside.https://aftertheasterisk.com/en-ushttps://aftertheasterisk.com/never-again-to-whom/https://aftertheasterisk.com/never-again-to-whom/for america’s 250th birthday, a founding story from another shore asks how freedom’s language can carry removal, injury, and innocence.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:42:35 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/doing-the-capitalism/https://aftertheasterisk.com/doing-the-capitalism/a haggle in roatán opens into a reflection on capitalism, power, guilt, and the stories we tell to stay innocent.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:30:37 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/the-smuggled-malice/https://aftertheasterisk.com/the-smuggled-malice/a post about children and pets drew defenses from people with nothing else in common. the shape of those refusals is the subject of this essay.Sun, 10 May 2026 11:30:03 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/what-i-didnt-say/https://aftertheasterisk.com/what-i-didnt-say/in college, i didn't defend my queer friends when homophobes said slurs around me. my christianity provided cover for my silence. what it cost.Sun, 03 May 2026 11:30:02 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/agnostic-about-what/https://aftertheasterisk.com/agnostic-about-what/why i landed on atheism after the specifics collapsed. on psalm 121, the firmament, and protecting a word after the thing it named is gone.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:30:29 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/jesus-called-that-lady-a-bitch/https://aftertheasterisk.com/jesus-called-that-lady-a-bitch/a historical-critical reading of mark 7. on the syrophoenician woman and why progressive christianity needs jesus to be clean.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:03:49 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/im-third/https://aftertheasterisk.com/im-third/god first, others second, i'm third. on a wednesday night sermon, two decades of people-pleasing, and trading eternal life for an actual one.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:01:06 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/the-rebrand-is-the-doctrine/https://aftertheasterisk.com/the-rebrand-is-the-doctrine/"it's not a religion, it's a relationship." on how the church keeps changing the logo to avoid shutting down the factory.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:00:25 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/the-theology-of-the-blink/https://aftertheasterisk.com/the-theology-of-the-blink/on tananarive due's the reformatory, jim crow, and the theology you build when god keeps looking away from the places that need him most.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:02:49 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/the-last-time-i-prayed/https://aftertheasterisk.com/the-last-time-i-prayed/i don't remember the last time i prayed. i just stopped. on bedtime fear, bargaining at 30,000 feet, and the silence on the other end.Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:02:33 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/the-rapture-is-a-fantasy/https://aftertheasterisk.com/the-rapture-is-a-fantasy/jesus and paul believed the world was about to end. they were wrong. on imminence, abandonment, and what happens when the rescue never comes.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:01:48 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-conservative/https://aftertheasterisk.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-conservative/every messiah's followers eventually guard the museum built to honor the man who set it on fire. on disruption, orthodoxy, and calcification.Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:00:50 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/rome-wasnt-built-for-grief/https://aftertheasterisk.com/rome-wasnt-built-for-grief/apologetics as border patrol. certainty as anesthetic. on why the empire needs the deconstructor to look defective.Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:01:44 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/maps-for-worlds-that-dont-exist/https://aftertheasterisk.com/maps-for-worlds-that-dont-exist/apologetics is rich dad poor dad. systematic theology is atomic habits. on certainty and the cost of reading the bible as a user manual.Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:02:43 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/the-men-on-the-roof/https://aftertheasterisk.com/the-men-on-the-roof/david stayed home from war and saw bathsheba. the freedman's bank trustees stayed in washington and saw fresh capital. on the anatomy of a heist.Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:00:36 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/the-song-and-the-silence/https://aftertheasterisk.com/the-song-and-the-silence/on the black church as survival technology, the danger of critiquing from the balcony, and saying grace with my eyes open.Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:00:27 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/i-believe-you-felt-something/https://aftertheasterisk.com/i-believe-you-felt-something/the feeling is real, but the name is local. on worship, absorption, and why the same experience delivers a different god depending on the room.Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:02:28 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/how-i-lost-my-faith/https://aftertheasterisk.com/how-i-lost-my-faith/i wasn't trying to deconstruct. i was trying to explain why jesus rode a donkey. on prophecy, lineage, and what happens when you pull the thread.Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:18:43 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/the-invention-of-the-villain/https://aftertheasterisk.com/the-invention-of-the-villain/mark gives judas no motive. matthew adds prophecy. luke adds satan. john makes him a thief. on how the gospels invented the villain they needed.Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:02:14 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/the-bible-has-a-slavery-problem/https://aftertheasterisk.com/the-bible-has-a-slavery-problem/the bible doesn't just mention slavery — it regulates, sanctions, and inherits it. on leviticus 25, jesus, paul, and what the text actually says.Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:08:24 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/the-first-sin-was-a-lie/https://aftertheasterisk.com/the-first-sin-was-a-lie/god warns them they'll die. they don't. the serpent was right. on genesis, eve, and what actually happened in the garden.Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:13:09 GMThttps://aftertheasterisk.com/in-the-beginning-622/https://aftertheasterisk.com/in-the-beginning-622/a small shift in how genesis reads changes everything. on creation, deconstruction, and the stories we tell to make sense of existence.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:15:19 GMT