Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

When Ryan Burge was about 14 years old, his congregation at First Baptist Church of Salem, Illinois, was shaken by an internal rift. The pastor had grown more Calvinist in his teachings and the shift ...