With simple visuals and authentic Appalachian-American verbiage, the Little Bubby Child social media accounts¹ paint a loving and humorous picture of modern-day hillbillies as they interact with broader American culture. It’s not all fun and games—the dysfunction and breakdown are on display, but the wisdom and humanity of the holler-dwellers and mountain folk also shine. Sometimes, these verbally creative descendants of the Scots-Irish (instantly familiar to anyone who has lived in Appalachia) deliver scathing critiques of concepts and tropes that litter university towns and big cities like so many Starbucks cups.

A recent post bears directly on one such concept (or strategy) we often hear of in Presbyterian Church in America circles: contextualization. Read more»

Brad Isbell | “Ecclesial Shenanigans = Antisocial Behavior” | November 4, 2025

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• Brad Isbell

  

  Brad Isbell is a ruling elder at Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Oak Ridge, TN, board member of More In The PCA, co-host of the Presbycast podcast, editorial member of Presbyterian Polity, and treasurer of the Heidelberg Reformation Association.

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