My reaction to this article about Today's Christian Tribes is that Jesus called us to be small things like yeast and salt. I do not think Jesus intended for a religion for which his title was an adjective to be the official religion of empire, but that is how it became assimilated, like the northern tribe of Israel. I will note too that one thing the article gets right is associating the Christian religion with tribalism, for religions are tribes that align identity with a deity. #

Note, the header graphic is not from this year, my wife took that picture in Houghton, Michigan during our fall trip in 2023.#

Last weekend we were on our annual fall road trip to visit my mom in Menominee, Michigan. We stayed in Mackinaw City on the way there and back and on Saturday we drove over to west side of norther Lower Peninsula to drive through the Tunnel of Trees on M119.#