Dillon Sluss
Dillon Sluss founded Mugs & Manna. He writes and edits alongside other contributors and reads everything submitted to the website. His goal is simple: frequently publish thought provoking pieces on faith and theology that read like they were written by people who are biblically curious, academically rigorous, and bring the Kingdom of God to the people of Earth. He lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife and 3 pets. Outside of publishing he enjoys playing Chess and software development. He also enjoys public speaking and teaching in his local church. His favorite topics to write about include the following: Church History, The Kingdom of God, and the book of Leviticus. He’s not trying to present a finished version of faith. He wants Mugs & Manna to feel like the kind of conversation you’d have sitting around after the coffee’s gone cold, dinner is finished, and people finally say what they mean. If you'd like to contact him with questions, concerns, or just to talk please reach out to [email protected]
28 Articles
Take the Best Horse and Go
The word gospel has been used so many times it has lost its edges, but it started as a military announcement carried by the fastest rider to the farthest battlefield. This is what the word actually meant, where it came from, and what it means to carry it today.
— Dillon Sluss · 6 min read
Learning The Voice
Sometimes what we're calling faith is decision-making with a prayer attached to the front of it, and the reason we can't tell the difference is that we've never learned what it sounds like when God actually speaks.
— Dillon Sluss · 6 min read
What God Sent Them To Say: The Remnant Who Took Refuge
The temptation for a Christian sitting with Zephaniah in 2026 is to pick a side in the political argument and idolize it, to decide that the de-creation happening around you belongs entirely to the other tribe and that your tribe is the remnant worth preserving.
— Dillon Sluss · 8 min read
What God Sent Them To Say: Standing At The Watchpost
The righteous person does not live by having satisfying answers. He lives by faith, which here is not a feeling. It is a decision about where to plant your weight when the ground is uncertain.
— Dillon Sluss · 19 min read
What God Sent Them To Say: Standing Close, Living Far
"Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea."
— Dillon Sluss · 8 min read
What God Sent Them to Say: Your Brother's Keeper
The story of sibling rivalry runs like a thread through the entire biblical narrative. Cain and Abel. Ishmael and Isaac. Esau and Jacob. Joseph and his brothers. The pattern is not accidental.
— Dillon Sluss · 6 min read
What God Sent Them to Say: Nodding Along Until Your Name Came Up
Finally. Someone is saying it out loud. The neighbors are wicked and God sees it.
— Dillon Sluss · 7 min read
What God Sent Them to Say: He Kept the Vow Anyway
God, by putting Hosea through this marriage, is not illustrating a theological point from a safe distance. He is showing us what it feels like from his side.
— Dillon Sluss · 6 min read
850 Minutes
The 850 minutes we spend scrolling are often the symptom of a heart that has either stopped caring or is trying to numb the pain of a world that demands too much.
— Dillon Sluss · 8 min read
Ankle Deep
— Dillon Sluss · 8 min read
Declared Blessed
— Dillon Sluss · 4 min read
When the Soul Stirs
The ground breaks open not because we finally got our act together, but because the God who commands the winter is the same God who commands the thaw.
— Dillon Sluss · 7 min read
God Is Not a Search Engine
When we approach prayer primarily as a transaction, we bypass all of that. A transaction requires nothing of you emotionally. You don't have to locate yourself. You don't have to be honest about where you actually are, as opposed to where you think you should be. You just submit the request and wait for processing.
— Dillon Sluss · min read
Feasting on Hope
Hope is a more powerful catalyst than doom.
— Dillon Sluss · 6 min read
Social Media Stoning?
— Dillon Sluss · 4 min read
Beyond Holy Week: The Eighth Day
The fundamental shift from passive reception to active proclamation is the true mark of a life lived in the New Creation.
— Dillon Sluss · 5 min read
Beyond Holy Week: The Scandal of the Open Table
If the tomb is empty, the rules of scarcity, the reign of evil, and the social walls of separation have been fundamentally dismantled by our Savior who was our example.
— Dillon Sluss · 4 min read
Beyond Holy Week: The Hidden Life
If our faith only shows up when the church crowd is watching, is it truly alive? Or is it just a seasonal costume we wear?
— Dillon Sluss · 5 min read
Beyond Holy Week: The Resurrection Behind Lock and Key
We acknowledge the victory of Christ in our theology, but we inhabit the defeat of anxiety in our biology.
— Dillon Sluss · 5 min read
Beyond Holy Week: The Digital Exodus
Our faith shouldn't be a photo op or a brief burst of godliness before we let a hyper-connected world take the wheel again.
— Dillon Sluss · 5 min read
Beyond Holy Week: The Daily Interruption
Jesus doesn't pray for us to interrupt our lives for a single Holy Week. He prays for every single one of our weeks to be interrupted by eternal life.
— Dillon Sluss · 5 min read
Beyond Holy Week: Building a Lifestyle of Worship
Paul’s radical statement, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” (Galatians 2:20), demands a daily commitment, not just an annual one, if we want to actively invite Christ to live in us.
— Dillon Sluss · 3 min read
How Do You Worship
— Dillon Sluss · 6 min read
Who Am I? Rethinking Our Identity
— Dillon Sluss · 5 min read
The Kingdom You Were Made For : The Unexpected Kingdom of Jesus
— Dillon Sluss · 6 min read
Winter of the Soul
What if, instead of adding more noise to your life this month, you allowed for a sacred dormancy?
— Dillon Sluss · 5 min read
Imitating Jesus Through Bodily Discipline
— Dillon Sluss · 5 min read
A Man With a Thought
— Dillon Sluss · 4 min read