4state Pride Faith Network

12/13/2025

"A Charlie Brown Christmas is simple and complex and subtle and obvious. Just as our faith ought to be. . . . Like A Charlie Brown Christmas, after decades, our faith should remain both familiar and as fresh as it was in the beginning. We must grow and learn as we explore our faith. We must strive to see new things with old eyes. We should work to be better and not remain who we have been. This is the promise of God. A promise that exists for all time, in full view. The Savior is right there, in front of us the whole time, and we don’t even see it."

See how "A Charlie Brown Christmas" shows us the Savior in a subtle and loving manner, right before our eyes, without us even noticing:

The Secret Symbol in a Charlie Brown Christmas

12/13/2025

🌪️ The Name We Refuse to Surrender

There’s a strange ache in watching a word you love become a weapon. “Christian”—once a name whispered in catacombs, sung in prison hymns, and etched into acts of radical love—now echoes in courtrooms and campaign slogans, often stripped of its soul. It’s like watching a garden overrun by concrete: the soil still remembers, but the surface denies it.

Faith, in its truest form, is not a brand—it’s a body. A living, breathing witness to love that breaks bread with enemies and weeps with the wounded. Scripture doesn’t call us to win arguments; it calls us to wash feet. Jesus never said, “They’ll know you by your theology,” but “by your love” (John 13:35). And yet, many today weaponize verses like swords, forgetting that the Word became flesh—not a weapon.

The metaphor is clear: Christianity is not a fortress to defend, but a table to extend. And if the table is missing Jesus—crucified, risen, radically loving—then it’s not Christianity at all.

Pastor Brandon is a prophetic voice reclaiming the name “Christian” from distortion. His work centers on love, justice, and the radical hospitality of Jesus.

Perhaps reclaiming Christianity isn’t about louder doctrine—but deeper resemblance.

🤟 Royce