Working as a Believer
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The Thin Blue Life
- Articles
When a Community Lifts Together
After the Shift: The Courage to Come Back Home
Trust Is Built Face-to-Face: What National Night Out Reminds Us About Policing
Why Your Spouse Doesn’t Feel Loved (Even When You Swear You’re Trying): A Love-Language Guide for Cops
HALT Before You Blow Up: Timing Your Words So Your Police Marriage Survives the Job
- Videos
Why America Still Needs Cops: A Christian Detective’s Case for Law Enforcement (Video)
Why Police Officers Need to Understand the Connection Between Trauma and Identity (Video)
Can a Detective Really Make a Case for Jesus? (Video)
How A Detective Might Make the Case for God (Video)
Crime Fighters: Why Would A Good God Allow Moral Evil? (Video)
- Podcasts
Cops, Christians, and a Culture on Edge (Podcast)
Cops Know the Difference Between Evidence and Proof (Podcast)
How a Murder and a Few Google Employees Demonstrated the Existence of God (Podcast)
What Should Christians Think About The State Of Law Enforcement In America? (Podcast)
How to Find Peace in the Chaos of Law Enforcement (Podcast)
Nature of Law Enforcement
On August 19th 2026, ABC7 Los Angeles published “LAPD bodycam video shows dramatic rescue of person pinned under car after crash.” The story is...
Marriage as a Cop
One of the most useful observations in Police1’s article, “The Partner at Home: Maintaining a Strong First Responder Marriage, Relationship,” concerns decompression. After a...
Working as a Believer
On the first Tuesday of August, neighborhoods across America participated in an event that rarely makes the national headlines in the way a critical...
Marriage as a Cop
Most of us, as cops, aren’t struggling in our marriages because we don’t love our spouses. We’re struggling because we don’t always understand precisely...
Working as a Believer
As cops, we understand how difficult it is to function properly in a culture increasingly hostile toward our purpose and mission. If you’re a...
Working as a Believer
Religious freedom has certainly been in the news for many years, amplified by the controversy years ago over many elements of President Obama’s healthcare...
Working as a Believer
The focus for Christians each year is typically on the “babe in the manger” as described in the Luke 2 and Matthew chapters 1...
Investigating Christianity
My detective father taught me how to attend church as a non-believer. He did it for many years in many different contexts with both...
Working as a Believer
“For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.” (Psalm 18:29-42) “For the weapons of our warfare...
Investigating Christianity
Most of my non-detective friends don’t understand the nature of evidence. Many people simply don’t understand the basic categories of evidence and mistakenly think...
Life Off-Duty
As an atheist police officer, I had little problem determining the purpose of my life. I was comfortable assigning meaning to my life. What...
Investigating Christianity
As a detective whose been involved in many jury trials, I’m sometimes surprised to see how quickly young Christians are shaken when they first...
Character Development
Caleb said, “…Now therefore, GIVE ME THIS MOUNTAIN of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified....
Marriage as a Cop
