This is one of my favorite songs from one of the most-played albums in my Apple Music library. Once, in high school, I got to play this song for an end-of-year teacher talent show. My history teacher put together a band of students, complete with two drummers. I felt so freakin' cool that The post With or Without You // U2 Cover appeared first on Morgan G Farris ..read more

What happens when church leadership not only protects abusers but sets up a system to enable them?  We Forgot How to "People" A friend of mine once lamented to me that her main grievance with the Church today is that we just don't know how to "people." For an institution that was created firstly to The post Protecting Abusers in the Name of Protecting the Brand appeared first on Morgan G Farris ..read more

I bet you believe some form of the Prosperity Gospel and don't even know it. It's a four-letter word in the Church today: Prosperity Gospel charlatans and their ilk have come to be known as the snake oil salesman of evangelicalism and the New Apostolic Reformation. They show up on Sundays in their $5,000 hoodies The post You’re Buying Into the Prosperity Gospel appeared first on Morgan G Farris ..read more

It seems like the Church today is prone to spiritual abuse. Whether Catholic or Protestant, mega or mini-sized, the Church is rampant with bad leaders acting selfishly, manipulating and lying for purposes that defy logic. Why? What is the pattern that facilitates this behavior? And how can we get better? Be better? Do better? This The post The Not Exhaustive But Ridiculously Too Long List of Grievances appeared first on Morgan G Farris ..read more

In my last article, which several thousand of you read (thank you so much), I apparently struck a chord. It's becoming undeniably clear that something is fundamentally broken about the modern Church movement in the West. I think it's time we start exploring that together. I don't know that we'll find all the answers -- The post Is Marketing Jesus Killing the Church? appeared first on Morgan G Farris ..read more

I began writing this article in February 2023. Scratch that. I began wrestling with the content of this post in January 2020, but I hadn't been able to articulate it until now. Even so, you can see that it's January 2024 and I'm just now posting it. There are reasons for that, too, which I The post Deconstructing My Deconstruction appeared first on Morgan G Farris ..read more

This original version of the classic Christmas carol is arranged, performed, and produced exclusively by Morgan G Farris. When I decided I wanted to release a Christmas EP, I knew I had to include this song. The first time I paid attention to it I was a kid and, oddly enough, it was The post O Holy Night // Official Lyric Video appeared first on Morgan G Farris ..read more

I’ve heard of the tradition of soul cakes for years, but being an American, and more so, a Texan, they are not something that has ever been a part of my Halloween experience. But an English friend of mine posted a picture of the treats on social media, and I decided it was high time The post All Hallow’s Eve Soul Cakes appeared first on Morgan G Farris ..read more

Well, folks, the time has come. For years I have teased about music I've been working on. If you've been following closely, you know that I have something a little different in store for you: namely music from my books. That's right. Music. As in a soundtrack. A score. Like a movie. Being an author The post Lost Cause – Music FROM the Chalam Chronicles appeared first on Morgan G Farris ..read more

For years now I've been wrestling with the Church. In the early months of that struggle, I thought I was struggling with my faith, but over time I've come to realize that my struggle has never been with whether God exists, whether I believe that, or whether that should affect me. (He does, I do, The post The Live Oak and the Bradford Pear appeared first on Morgan G Farris ..read more