July - 2022

Nerd Pastor Nate

Jul 31, 20228 min read

The Warning Behind Jordan Peele's Spectacle in NOPE | Nerdy Sermon

Upon watching Jordan Peele’s summer monster movie Nope, I was… unhappy. After obsessing over Get Out and enjoying Us for years, I had...

Nerd Pastor Nate

Jul 27, 20222 min read

The Method Behind the Nerdness

Something I don't talk about enough is the absolute joy I get from our weekly nerdy sermons. I can only imagine the fourteen-year-old...

Checkpoint Church

Jul 26, 20221 min read

Featured: Thor and an angry god

Nerd Pastor Nate is a featured writer for Rethink Church writing on gaming, anime, and other pop culture topics. Read the full article...

Nerd Pastor Nate

Jul 24, 20229 min read

How Neon White Teaches YOU To Git Gud | Nerdy Sermon

I’m generally not one for First-Person Shooter style games, but when I heard that Ben Esposito of Edith Finch, Donut County, and the...

Checkpoint Church

Jul 20, 20222 min read

Playing the Support Role

When I first started developing a church for nerds, geeks, and gamers, I thought what I was creating was novel. It didn't take long to...

Nerd Pastor Nate

Jul 13, 20222 min read

Celebrating the Mileage Maniacs

We wrapped up our first ever community challenge event at the end of June - Mileage Mania. For the entire month of June, we challenged...

Nerd Pastor Nate

Jul 10, 20229 min read

Did Eleven Make the Right Choice in Season 4's Finale? | Nerdy Sermon

Stranger Things - the show so nice we have to write a sermon about this season twice. Well, the truth is it’ll be like twenty years...

Nerd Pastor Nate

Jul 6, 20222 min read

A 2-Year Reflection

This past Sunday marked an important day in the United Methodist Church. Clergy across the denomination will be preaching their very...

Nerd Pastor Nate

Jul 3, 20228 min read

Why is 'The Church' Always The Villain in Fantasy Stories?

Listen - whenever I said I didn’t want to watch another Isekai so long as I live, I didn’t mean yall literally had to make a whole anime...