For twenty-five years, Link Neal led worship, journaled to God, and organized prayer groups—while being unable, with remarkable consistency, to feel any of it. The evangelical system promoted him to worship leader. This is not a story about hypocrisy.

Rhett McLaughlin spent his twenties as a professional evangelical—four spiritual laws, spring break beaches, the full operation. Then he read a book about evolution, noticed a pattern in the counter-arguments, and could not un-notice it.