I wrote the following article for the Baptist Times magazine Youth to Truth column, submitted September 2019:   When I was a youth pastor, I wanted an atmosphere that was exciting and personal—like God—but still holy and reverent—like God. Former Catholics tell me they revered God but had no personal relationship with Him. To them, reverence itself was god, and majestic ceremonies and cathedrals were as close as they could get to God’s true majesty. The $1 billion budget to rebuild Notre Dame suggests that the externals are all they have. Pete Buttigieg’s god swings the other way though, dismissing