Brian Zahnd
@brianzahnd.bsky.social
Founding pastor of Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri; author of eleven books, including The Wood Between the Worlds.
Imagine what the Hebrew prophets would say about trillionaires.
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Imagine what the Hebrew prophets would say about trillionaires.
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Unseen Existences
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November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A Brief Q/A
“…among whom licentiousness was taken for gaiety and cheap cynicism for intelligence.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
At the beginning of the year I’ll teach a ten-week online class on Dostoevsky’s “Demons.”
It’s not for the faint of heart.
Try wolc.com/demons and you might find more info.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
At the beginning of the year I’ll teach a ten-week online class on Dostoevsky’s “Demons.”
It’s not for the faint of heart.
Try wolc.com/demons and you might find more info.
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“…among whom licentiousness was taken for gaiety and cheap cynicism for intelligence.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
At the beginning of the year I’ll teach a ten-week online class on Dostoevsky’s “Demons.”
It’s not for the faint of heart.
Try wolc.com/demons and you might find more info.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
At the beginning of the year I’ll teach a ten-week online class on Dostoevsky’s “Demons.”
It’s not for the faint of heart.
Try wolc.com/demons and you might find more info.
When the church seeks to change the world through political power, it does not change the world, it becomes the world.
As Stanley Hauerwas famously says, “The first task of the church is to make the world the world.”
As Stanley Hauerwas famously says, “The first task of the church is to make the world the world.”
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
When the church seeks to change the world through political power, it does not change the world, it becomes the world.
As Stanley Hauerwas famously says, “The first task of the church is to make the world the world.”
As Stanley Hauerwas famously says, “The first task of the church is to make the world the world.”
Word of Life Church was born on All Saints Day 1981. This Sunday we’ll celebrate our 44th anniversary and I’ll preach a sermon called “The Word of Life” (1 John 1:1).
November 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Word of Life Church was born on All Saints Day 1981. This Sunday we’ll celebrate our 44th anniversary and I’ll preach a sermon called “The Word of Life” (1 John 1:1).
Dark As Midnight || The Story of Job - Part 3
YouTube video by Word of Life Church
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October 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Random: My photo of the inkwells, pipes, and tobacco of C.S. Lewis.
October 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Random: My photo of the inkwells, pipes, and tobacco of C.S. Lewis.
Wherein I talk about the enigmatic Tom Bombadil.
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Tom Bombadil: Tolkien's Greatest Characters | Brian Zahnd
YouTube video by The Plunge With Derek Holser
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October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Wherein I talk about the enigmatic Tom Bombadil.
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Resist the tyranny of tiny screens. Read big books. 📚
October 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Resist the tyranny of tiny screens. Read big books. 📚
In “Demons,” Fyodor Dostoevsky portrays the adherents of Marxist atheism and the adherents of (Russian) Christian nationalism as both under the sway of demonic isms.
October 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
In “Demons,” Fyodor Dostoevsky portrays the adherents of Marxist atheism and the adherents of (Russian) Christian nationalism as both under the sway of demonic isms.
Any attempt to use Jesus Christ to serve some nation, politics, ideology, ism, or cause, other than the divine mission to reconcile all things so that in the end God is all in all, is to reduce Jesus Christ to a false idol.
October 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Any attempt to use Jesus Christ to serve some nation, politics, ideology, ism, or cause, other than the divine mission to reconcile all things so that in the end God is all in all, is to reduce Jesus Christ to a false idol.
DEMONS
A 10-week online course through Dostoevsky’s darkest and most prophetic novel.
The course begins in January.
Registration is now open.
Cost: donation of any amount.
The registration link has all the pertinent information.
Join me in January for…DEMONS!
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A 10-week online course through Dostoevsky’s darkest and most prophetic novel.
The course begins in January.
Registration is now open.
Cost: donation of any amount.
The registration link has all the pertinent information.
Join me in January for…DEMONS!
www.eventbrite.com/e/demons-onl...
Demons Online Course
A 10-week study of Dostoevsky's novel Demons led by Brian Zahnd
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October 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
DEMONS
A 10-week online course through Dostoevsky’s darkest and most prophetic novel.
The course begins in January.
Registration is now open.
Cost: donation of any amount.
The registration link has all the pertinent information.
Join me in January for…DEMONS!
www.eventbrite.com/e/demons-onl...
A 10-week online course through Dostoevsky’s darkest and most prophetic novel.
The course begins in January.
Registration is now open.
Cost: donation of any amount.
The registration link has all the pertinent information.
Join me in January for…DEMONS!
www.eventbrite.com/e/demons-onl...
Dark As Midnight || The Story of Job - Part 2
YouTube video by Word of Life Church
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October 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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When America Went to Hell
The Second Great Awakening and the Civil War
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October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Peri’s photo from the car as we drove to the mountains last month.
October 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Peri’s photo from the car as we drove to the mountains last month.
DEMONS: Dostoevsky's darkest and most prophetic novel.
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DEMONS
Dostoevsky's Darkest and Most Prophetic Novel
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October 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
DEMONS: Dostoevsky's darkest and most prophetic novel.
brianzahnd.substack.com/p/demons
brianzahnd.substack.com/p/demons
Today I began a three-part series through the book of Job called “Dark As Midnight.” Here is part 1.
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Dark As Midnight || The Story of Job - Part 1
YouTube video by Word of Life Church
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October 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Today I began a three-part series through the book of Job called “Dark As Midnight.” Here is part 1.
youtu.be/bj5baA4TCPA?...
youtu.be/bj5baA4TCPA?...
True Christianity advances without coercion. We persuade by love, witness, reason, rhetoric, Spirit, and, if need be, by martyrdom; but never by force, never by the sword, never by the coercive apparatus of this state.
October 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
True Christianity advances without coercion. We persuade by love, witness, reason, rhetoric, Spirit, and, if need be, by martyrdom; but never by force, never by the sword, never by the coercive apparatus of this state.
The ten who have most influenced my theology.* (In alphabetical order.)
Walter Brueggemann
Sergius Bulgakov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bob Dylan
René Girard
David Bentley Hart
Stanley Hauerwas
C.S. Lewis
N.T. Wright
L. Glen Zahnd
Walter Brueggemann
Sergius Bulgakov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bob Dylan
René Girard
David Bentley Hart
Stanley Hauerwas
C.S. Lewis
N.T. Wright
L. Glen Zahnd
October 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The ten who have most influenced my theology.* (In alphabetical order.)
Walter Brueggemann
Sergius Bulgakov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bob Dylan
René Girard
David Bentley Hart
Stanley Hauerwas
C.S. Lewis
N.T. Wright
L. Glen Zahnd
Walter Brueggemann
Sergius Bulgakov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bob Dylan
René Girard
David Bentley Hart
Stanley Hauerwas
C.S. Lewis
N.T. Wright
L. Glen Zahnd
This Sunday I begin a new three-part series on the story of Job: DARK AS MIDNIGHT
October 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This Sunday I begin a new three-part series on the story of Job: DARK AS MIDNIGHT
A Christianity that promotes the interests of empire* is a Christianity that rides the back of the beast as the whore of Babylon.
October 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
A Christianity that promotes the interests of empire* is a Christianity that rides the back of the beast as the whore of Babylon.
The prophets and psalmists of lament show us how to find faith and hold on to hope in the time of tears. I'll preach on this tomorrow.
October 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The prophets and psalmists of lament show us how to find faith and hold on to hope in the time of tears. I'll preach on this tomorrow.
Confessing Jesus Christ is Lord
And pledging allegiance to America
Are incompatible commitments
Choose one
Choose this day
Choose whom you will serve
And pledging allegiance to America
Are incompatible commitments
Choose one
Choose this day
Choose whom you will serve
September 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Confessing Jesus Christ is Lord
And pledging allegiance to America
Are incompatible commitments
Choose one
Choose this day
Choose whom you will serve
And pledging allegiance to America
Are incompatible commitments
Choose one
Choose this day
Choose whom you will serve
This Sunday I'm preaching in Denver. Amazing Grace Church, 10AM. My sermon is called, "The Lord Said to Satan..." You're invited. www.agcdenver.net
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This Sunday I'm preaching in Denver. Amazing Grace Church, 10AM. My sermon is called, "The Lord Said to Satan..." You're invited. www.agcdenver.net