About Faith Over Factions

If you believe in Jesus but feel exhausted by modern Christianity, this is for you.

Maybe you're serving faithfully in a church but you feel invisible beyond what you can do for the machine. Maybe you're sitting in the third row every Sunday but keeping your real questions to yourself because you learned honesty is dangerous. Maybe you left an institution entirely because you couldn't hear Jesus anymore through all the noise. Maybe you drift between communities, never quite fitting anywhere.

You're beleaguered. You're tired. And you still believe.

This is for beleaguered believers—wherever you are, whatever your situation.

You're not broken. You're not faithless. You just need to hear His voice above the noise. You need to remember what the road with Jesus actually looks like when everything around you is loud and confusing. You need to know you aren't alone. You have a tribe.

• Scripture-centered reflections. Not sermons. Not theological arguments for their own sake. Just trying to see what Jesus actually said and what it means to follow Him when the culture wars are screaming and the institutions are exhausting.
• Clarity when Christianity feels confusing. When political movements claim Jesus' name, when power looks like discipleship, when the loudest voices say they speak for God—we need to know what He actually said. That's what we're doing here.
• Permission to ask hard questions. The questions that get you labeled a problem in most church spaces. The ones that make people nervous. You can ask them here. Doubt isn't the opposite of faith. Pretending is.
• Companionship on the road. You're not walking alone. A lot of us are out here on the edges, still holding onto Christ even when we don't fit the rooms that claim His name. We see you. You're not crazy.

My name is John. I'm an INFP introvert, neurodivergent, living full-time in an RV and traveling around observing American culture from campgrounds while doing my thing. Which includes this thing. All the photos and artwork used on this site are mine. Spent years wondering what I was going to do with all that material and here it gets used.

I write from a deliberately non-partisan biblical perspective, or at least I try to anyway. I do this because I don't think Jesus fits neatly into progressive or evangelical boxes, and I'm tired of watching people try to make Him fit. My ethical guardrail is Micah 6:8: do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. Everything I write gets filtered through that.

I'm content with a small reach. I know this work means isolation. That's the nature of the gig—you stand in the tension and refuse to pick a faction, and both sides think you're the problem. I am at peace with that.

Faith Over Factions is touchpoint. It's me trying to serve beleaguered believers because I am one, and I know what it's like to feel spiritually homeless even when you still love Jesus.

I am no stranger to churchianity. I've seen a few things that I will just describe not very edifying and leave it there. But I've been there and watched and listened. I see the contradictions. I see the pride, ego and hypocrisy, but also  the love and the fear and the confusion. And I write from that vantage point—an observer on the edges who still believes the Gospel can cut through all of it and bring truth,  grace and healing.

This isn't progressive Christianity. Though we identify with many progressive values.

This isn't evangelical Christianity. Though we use enough scripture and historical Christian voices to have been called "fundegelical'."

This isn't fence-sitting or "both sides have a point" centrism.

This isn't me building a platform or a brand or trying to grow an audience at all costs.

This is following Jesus when the factions are too loud. It's Scripture-centered, Christ-focused discipleship for people who are tired of choosing between camps that both get Him wrong in multiple different ways.

I'm not interested in being balanced. I'm interested in being in alignment with the calling of God. Those aren't the same thing. I'm not here to preach against all your sins. I believe in the power of the Holy Spirit to do what he does while I do what I do and stay in my lane while doing it. I'm not here to fix anyone. Especially when your only broken bits might be the ones people told you were broken and like me in times past. You believed them. Only nothing 's broken at all. Maybe just a bit speaky. So...

If you need permission to step back from the noise and see if you can hear Him again—you have it. Not because I give it. He did. If you need someone to say you're not faithless for questioning what's happening in modern Christianity, then I will—you're not. If you need to know you're not alone out here—you're not.

This is Faith Over Factions. This is for beleaguered believers.

Welcome.