If we're going to say the priesthood fails when the code is public, the operating model has to be public too. Here's how the Church of NORMAL is organized, governed, and funded — in plain language, no fine print.
The basics
- Legal status
- Organized as a Minnesota nonprofit ministry. Formal registration details are available on request.
- Home state
- South-central Minnesota (Waseca / Montgomery area).
- Founded by
- Matt Stoltz (Loopwalker) — founder. Not seminary-trained; the framework comes from lived experience, years of self-study, and personal mentoring.
- What it costs you
- Nothing. No membership, no tithing, no paywall. The doctrine is free to read and free to fork.
Our mission
To make trauma-informed, post-evangelical healing freely available to the people the institutional church couldn't hold — the deconstructing, the deconverted, and the merely curious — by treating religious trauma as corrupted code that can be diagnosed, isolated, and rebuilt, rather than as a moral failing to be ashamed of.
How it's governed
The ministry is founder-led and built in the open. Doctrine is published as a public archive so that anyone can see exactly what is taught and how it changes over time — version control for a belief system. There are no secret teachings and no inner circle.
How it's funded
The Church of NORMAL is currently self-funded, and the public content — doctrine, sermons, the primers, the cosmology — is given away with no paywall and no ask. We are not soliciting donations at this time. If and when that changes, this page will say so plainly, and giving will always be optional, never a condition of belonging.
Your data
If you join the newsletter, your email is used only to send you dispatches from the Church of NORMAL and is handled by our email provider. We don't sell it, rent it, or trade it, and you can unsubscribe at any time. The door doesn't lock from the inside — that goes for your inbox too.
The ethic, in one line
You can't worship what you can fork. The priesthood fails when the code is public — and we think that's the point.