The best-selling Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis could just as easily been subtitled How One Crazy Hillbilly Saved Me. Vance acknowledges this much when much of his summary chapter is devoted to the impact… Continue Reading
We have been laying groundwork for the past year to launch a biblical counseling ministry in 2017. We believe that the gospel is the answer to any brokenness and it is applicable in any cultural context. Yes, poverty, drugs, and… Continue Reading
There are many lessons for us to learn from the 2016 election. One of these lessons is the great chasm that exists between rural America and the metropolitan areas. I said shortly after the election that if you want to… Continue Reading
I’ve been interacting a bit with JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. I’m currently pastoring in hillbilly country. (One of our gas stations is actually called Hillbilly’s). And I’m not a foreigner. I grew up as a hillbilly in rural Northeast Missouri.… Continue Reading