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Justin Cox

The nightly "Beer and Hymns" gathering at North Carolina's Wild Goose Festival, where ex-evangelicals practice an all-inclusive version of Southern Christianity.

Wild Goose Chase: Finding Faith on the Fringe

If you believe the words “progressive” and “Christianity” don’t go together, you haven’t been to the Wild Goose Festival, a Carolina gathering that challenges perceptions of Southern Christianity.

Best Buddies

Some things we can let go of. Other things we can stash in the bottom drawer. But the best things can stay in your heart forever.

The Bootleg Preacher

A minister on why he takes his cues from the late Mississippi Rev. Will D. Campbell, who believed all of us were bastards, but that God loved us anyway.

Used Dishes: A Thanksgiving Story

When he left his native North Carolina to pastor a church in Vermont, he learned a new way in which grace travels back and forth.

Cornbread Is Personal

If you want to know me and my people, let me put a crusty wedge in your bowl.