![]() ![]() Wolfe’s sudden firing, he told me, was “traumatic.” His kids had grown up in this community. But often, as in Wolfe’s case, flat-Earthers are the biggest victims of their convictions. The polarizing idea has a way of setting people at odds with one another and drawing them into other fringe conspiracy theories-no good for a house of worship. It’s not hard to see how a pastor giving an unexpected flat-Earth sermon could harm a congregation. He believes the leaders discovered his belief when they learned he’d attended the conference. He had planned to broach the topic delicately during an upcoming Church-leadership meeting, making a religious argument for the theory beginning with Genesis 1, but he never had a chance. Wolfe left the convention with a new group of friends and a new commitment to live publicly as a flat-Earther. By 2018 he’d decided to attend Take On the World, a Christian conference promoting flat-Earth theory, about an hour from his home. Wolfe had been full-on “flat,” as believers refer to themselves, for almost a year, ever since he stumbled across YouTube videos promoting a biblical flat-Earth model when researching a sermon on the Great Flood. Still, certain Christians, like Wolfe, preach that the idea is supported by a literal interpretation of the Bible. The deeply unpopular theory erroneously posits that the planet is flat as a pancake and (according to many) contained beneath a dome. Wolfe believes that association was his “flat Earth” belief, which he’d kept under wraps in order to avoid this kind of situation. ![]() This article was adapted from Kelly Weill’s recent book, Off the Edge. ![]()
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