Relevant Magazine, Hugo Schwyzer, and a thing called grace
Trigger warnings for rape, abuse, stalking I believe in a thing called grace. Really, I do. I believe people can change, and when people change, I believe in giving those people a second chance. But...
View ArticleWhen your home church doesn’t feel like home
I’ve been away from my hometown in Michigan for four years now, but I’m back, for at least a year. Only it doesn’t feel like home right now. Parts do. I get along with my parents better than I ever...
View ArticleSo, who IS this man? (a book review)
I was recently asked to read and review John Ortberg’s new book, Who Is This Man? After the last Christian book I was asked to review, I was kind of squeamish to pick this one up. But I actually had a...
View ArticleGod is not really a king.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my deepest held images of God: why do I hold them? Where do they come from? What do they say about the Christian faith I was raised in? What do they say about me? How do...
View ArticleGod as a woman, seeking out the marginalized
One of the most popular images of God in the Bible is the image of God the shepherd. Through this image, we see God as a humble, but loving and protective man. A man who wants all of his sheep–99 out...
View ArticleMaybe God is a “bitch”
In the months following my decision to leave fundamentalism for good, I began to shy away from the idea of God as a God of wrath. No, how could God be wrathful? God is love. God isn’t angry at us. God...
View ArticleIf Jesus is Lord, then Caesar is not.
Last night at church, my pastor talked about the phrase “Jesus is Lord,” and what that phrase means. After church, a fellow church goer was wanting to start a conversation about what “Jesus is Lord”...
View ArticleI write from my wounds and they don’t hear Jesus
Today I saw a tweet by a liberal (?), progressive (?), doesn’t-think-gay-people-should-have-sex-but-probably-changed-their-FB-profile-picture-to-the-HRC-logo-a-few-months-ago (yeah, that’s it)...
View ArticleResurrection and the Surviving God
Content Note: brief description of a suicide attempt This past year, around Easter, I planned on writing some posts about crucifixion and resurrection. I found I couldn’t really get past the former. I...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of the Baby Jesus?
Content note: brief mentions of child abuse, Christian patriarchy, Sovereign Grace Ministries I remember a sermon I heard during chapel at my old Christian college around Christmas time. The speaker...
View ArticleWas Jesus Progressive For His Time?
Liberal/progressive/leftist Christians like to paint Jesus as an exceptional figure who fought for human rights centuries before anyone else did. You’ve probably heard, or said something like the...
View ArticleRelevant Magazine, Hugo Schwyzer, and a thing called grace
Trigger warnings for rape, abuse, stalking I believe in a thing called grace. Really, I do. I believe people can change, and when people change, I believe in giving those people a second chance. But...
View ArticleLiberating Liturgies: Anselm of Canterbury, and Jesus Our Mother
Today’s Liberating Liturgy comes from an interesting source: Anselm of Canterbury, a monk who lived from 1033-1109 C.E. I found this Liberating Liturgy quoted in She Who Is, by Elizabeth A. Johnson...
View ArticleIs the Bible the Word of God? Or is Jesus? Or….
I’m not sure where the phrase “The Bible is not the Word of God; Jesus is” originated. The first time I heard the phrase, though, (on Rachel Held Evan’s blog) it was just short of life-changing. It...
View ArticleNot Your Average Easter Story: A Review of “Walking Toward Resurrection”
If you were to ask me which writers have had the most influence on my theology, Shannon T.L. Kearns would definitely be in the top 10 (right up there with bell hooks and James Cone). I have been...
View ArticleTony Jones’ Cross is a Symbol of Abuse (Or, How To Abuse Women Like A Pacifist)
[content note: domestic violence and spiritual abuse] If you spend a lot of time in the same “progressive Christian internet” circles that I frequent, you may have heard of Tony Jones (theologian,...
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