Sunday To Society

Open your Bible to Matthew 6. Jesus gives instructions on giving, prayer, and fasting — three disciplines treated as parallel practices, each introduced the same way. He says "when you give." He says "when you pray." He says "when you fast." Not if. When. Most Protestant Christians pray. Most give. Almost none fast. Somewhere between the first century and today, one of the three disciplines Jesus...

One morning in Bristol, England, George Müller sat 300 orphaned children down at an empty breakfast table. There was no food in the house. There was no money to buy any. He bowed his head and gave thanks to God for what they were about to receive. A few minutes later a baker knocked at the door. He told Müller he hadn't been able to sleep the night before and had felt compelled to bake bread for t...

Nero burned them as torches to light his garden parties. Diocletian demolished their churches and burned their Scriptures. Ten emperors across 250 years tried to destroy the early church. None of them succeeded. From the time of Nero's persecution in 64 AD until Constantine's Edict of Milan in 313 AD, Christians suffered many periods of persecution, sometimes lasting for decades. They were accused...

In 1604 a king commissioned a new Bible translation. He wasn't motivated by theology. He was motivated by footnotes. The Geneva Bible — produced in 1560 by Protestant exiles in Calvin's Geneva — was the most beloved English Bible of its era. It was the most widely read and influential English Bible of the 16th and 17th centuries, printed from 1560 to 1644 in over 200 different editions. Shakespear...

Someone burned copies of this book to keep it out of your hands. The man who made it paid with his life. John Wycliffe was an Oxford theologian who believed that ordinary people had the right to read Scripture in their own language. In the 1380s his followers began producing the first handwritten English translations of the Bible — distributed by hand across England at enormous personal risk. Wycl...

Someone decided what goes in your Bible. The question is who — and whether you should trust them. The 66 books of Scripture were not delivered from heaven in a single moment. They were recognized through centuries of careful, contested, Spirit-guided discernment by real people under real pressure. Early Christians were being tortured to hand over their sacred texts. Heretics were circulating their...

He was a Dutch factory worker with a beat-up Volkswagen Beetle, a car full of Bibles, and a prayer. Andrew van der Bijl grew up in wartime Netherlands, survived the Nazi occupation as a boy, served in the Dutch army in Indonesia, and came home wounded and reckless. He found a Bible on his hospital bedside table, read it out of boredom, and was converted. Nobody would have picked him for what came...

He spent nineteen months chained to an oar in the belly of a French galley ship. When he was released he went straight back to preaching. John Knox came to the Reformed faith late, bodyguarding a Scottish preacher named George Wishart — who was arrested and burned alive while Knox watched. Within months Knox himself was a prisoner, rowing in chains across the Mediterranean. He later wrote that eve...

In 1415 the most powerful church council in the world summoned a Czech priest to answer for his beliefs, promised him safe passage, then arrested him the moment he arrived. Jan Huss had spent years preaching against a church visibly rotting from the inside — bishops buying and selling offices, indulgences traded for cash, multiple men simultaneously claiming to be pope. He had written one of the m...

He had no seminary degree. No mission organization. No sending church. Just a cobbler's bench, a borrowed map of the world, and a conviction that the Great Commission was still in effect. In 1792 William Carey published an 87-page argument — backed by global population data he compiled himself — that ordinary Christians were obligated to go to the nations. The same year he helped found the Baptist...

In this episode of Sunday to Society, Riley Reno sits down with Seth White for a spirited, encouraging conversation about their top Bible stories. From Moses at the burning bush and David and Goliath to Daniel in the lion’s den, Jonah, Ruth, and the birth of Christ, they share the passages that have shaped their faith and ministry—and explain why these stories still matter today. Along the way, th...

He never owned a home. He never married. He kept everything he owned in a saddlebag. By the time Francis Asbury died in 1816, he had traveled approximately 300,000 miles on horseback, preached over 16,000 sermons, and watched American Methodism grow from fewer than 600 members to over 200,000. He didn't do it from a desk. He did it on the road — through fever, rheumatism, mountain winters, and fro...

Everyone knows the last eleven words. But almost nobody knows what came before them. On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry stood up inside St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia — not a statehouse, not a town square, a church — and delivered one of the most consequential speeches in American history. The Second Virginia Convention had gathered there because no building in Williamsburg was large enough...

In August of 1776, George Washington's entire army was trapped against the East River with the British closing in. By every military calculation, that night should have ended the American Revolution. Then a fog rolled in so thick that nine thousand soldiers escaped without losing a single man. Washington didn't call it luck. He called it Providence. This Fourth of July, as America turns 250, Sunda...

Have you ever prayed with complete confidence that God would answer... only to hear "no"? Whether it was for healing, a relationship, financial provision, a ministry opportunity, or the salvation of someone you love, unanswered prayer can leave us asking some of the hardest questions of the Christian faith. If God is all-powerful and truly loves us, why doesn't He always say yes? In this episode o...

In today’s world, life doesn’t just feel lived anymore—it feels performed. In this episode of Sunday to Society , we explore why so much of modern life feels performative, curated, and constantly aware of an unseen audience. From social media to everyday conversations, from personal identity to private moments, many of us have slowly shifted from simply living our lives to managing how our lives a...

62% of Americans call themselves Christian. That is roughly 210 million people. But the data tells a very different story about how many of those people actually read their Bible, attend church, hold a biblical worldview, or live in any measurable way differently from their non-Christian neighbors. The gap between Christian identity and Christian reality has never been wider. And the church is lar...

Last week we named it. Church burnout is real, it is widespread, and the church's own culture often creates the conditions for it. But naming the problem is only half the conversation. Today we finish it. In part two of this series Sunday to Society digs into what God's Word actually says about rest, limits, delegation, and sustainable service. This episode is not permission to stop serving. The b...

You used to love serving at your church. You signed up for everything. You showed up early and stayed late. You meant every bit of it. And then somewhere along the way the joy left. It became obligation. You started dreading Sunday. And eventually you just stopped showing up. Not because your faith died. Because you did. Church burnout is real. It is widespread. And the church is largely silent ab...

Most Christians have been taught that changing your mind is a sign of weakness. That conviction means certainty. That a strong faith never wavers, never questions, and never looks back. But what if that's not what the Bible actually teaches? What if the most faithful thing you can do is let God change how you think? In this episode of Sunday to Society we dig into one of the most uncomfortable que...

53% of American evangelicals believe the Holy Spirit is just a force. Not a person. Not the third member of the Trinity. A force — like electricity or gravity. And these are people who say the Bible is their highest authority. Something is deeply wrong. And the church's silence on this is making it worse. In this episode of Sunday to Society we break down who the Holy Spirit actually is, what He a...

"Sunday is where we hear it—Society is where we live it." In April 2026, we’ve reached a staggering turning point: The world is no longer just watching the news; we are gambling on it. With over $1 billion flowing into "prediction markets" to bet on the timing of airstrikes and the fall of nations, we have to ask a hard theological question: Is your portfolio profiting from Babylon? In this episod...

42% of Americans say they have deconstructed the faith of their youth. 40 million people who once called themselves Christians no longer attend church. And on social media, walking away from God has become a brand — complete with millions of followers, viral content, and a community built around leaving. In this episode of Sunday to Society we dig into the deconstruction movement — what it actuall...

Most Christians think idolatry is an ancient problem. Golden calves. Stone statues. Something that stopped being relevant the moment the Old Testament ended. But the Bible defines an idol as anything that takes the place of God in your heart — and by that definition, the American church is drowning in them right now. In this episode of Sunday to Society, we look at the modern idols competing for y...

Are Christians just as financially stressed as the world—and why? You tithe on Sunday. You pray over your bills on Monday. And by Wednesday, you’re checking your account hoping something changed. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. In this episode of Sunday to Society , we’re having an honest, biblical conversation about money, debt, and financial anxiety—something most churches avoid, but...