Nerd Pastor Nate
Coffee Talk Does Church Better Than The Church
So - I generally try to only do games, movies, and anime that are trending and new in order to hopefully catch the hype and show people...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Mar 30
- 2 min
A Year of Generosity
Early on Checkpoint Church was faced with the challenging question: how do we practice generosity in this space? When we are in the...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Mar 27
- 9 min
What We Can Learn From The Turning Red "Controversy"
So Pixar’s Turning Red kind of just snuck in on Disney+ and I honestly probably would have missed out on watching it except for all of...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Mar 23
- 2 min
Now What Am I Supposed To Do?
Checkpoint Church is a weird thing. This past week I was tasked with, yet again, presenting Checkpoint as a concept to a Board of...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Mar 20
- 9 min
The HOPE in the War Between Batman & Bruce Wayne in Matt Reeves' 'The Batman'
Batman isn’t a superhero Look - hear me out. Batman isn’t a superhero. At his best, he’s a hero. At his worst, he’s a villain. Most of...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Mar 16
- 2 min
A Selfish Request
Out of all of the things that has surprised me the most with Checkpoint Church, the way that this community prays is astounding to me....
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Mar 13
- 9 min
What If We Haven't Found the BEST Ending of Elden Ring?
These past couple weeks of playing through the Old Testament - sorry, I meant Elden Ring - have been some interesting ones. I wasn’t...
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Checkpoint Church
- Mar 11
- 1 min
Featured: Faith, life and the lessons of “git gud” at video games
Nerd Pastor Nate is a featured writer for Rethink Church writing on gaming, anime, and other pop culture topics. In this post, he...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Mar 9
- 2 min
Marking The Safepoint
This past Monday we officially unveiled our Safepoint Policy. When it comes to digital ministry, much of the work being done is entirely...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Mar 6
- 8 min
How Sifu Teaches the Player That Revenge Isn't the Answer
Do you like getting angry? Not a big fan of it myself, but every now and again I’ll give a rage-inducing game a chance. Sifu is one of...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Mar 2
- 2 min
It's Been Lent All Along
Today marks the beginning of the Lenten season. From now until Easter, Christians across the globe will honor the age-old practice of...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Feb 27
- 8 min
How My Dress-Up Darling Dismantles Its Own Stereotypes
Look, okay, I know how this looks. I try to keep my embarrassing guilty pleasures to myself. I am a sucker for the anime romance genre....
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Feb 23
- 2 min
Meet The Guardians
With our first ever State of the RE:Union a few weeks ago, we made the announcement that Checkpoint would be instituting something new in...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Feb 20
- 8 min
Bojji Is The Ideal Jesus Follower - No, Really
Looking at Ranking of Kings - I couldn’t help but keep putting off watching this show. I thought it was going to be some kind of...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Feb 16
- 2 min
Twitch Does Church Better Than You
In the work of digital ministry, I have had to learn plenty about adaptivity. I've grown through failure, success, and mentorship every...
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Checkpoint Church
- Feb 15
- 1 min
Why should church stay online? Wordle
Nerd Pastor Nate is a featured writer for Rethink Church writing on gaming, anime, and other pop culture topics. In this post, he...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Feb 13
- 8 min
What Pokémon Legends Arceus Teaches Us About Humanity
If you’re anything like me, then you’ve logged way too many hours already into the world of Pokemon Legends Arceus. I may or may not have...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Feb 9
- 2 min
23,000 Reasons (A Viral Reflection)
As a digital-based entity, given enough time the algorithm of the Internet will reward continuous effort with a 'viral post.' It's not...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Feb 2
- 2 min
RE: Why Churches Should Drop Their Online Services
I had quite a few things I wanted to write about in this newsletter - but then the New York Times posted an op-ed piece on online...
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Nerd Pastor Nate
- Jan 30
- 8 min
Why People Love Mushoku Tensei: Human Honesty in Isekai
I gotta be real with you folks - I really didn’t want to like this show. And I’m still not totally sure that I do. But for some Mushoku...
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