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May 2018
May 08, 2018
What Would Happen If We Cut Our Military Budget In Half?
“The U.S. outpaces all other nations in military expenditures. World military spending totaled more than...
May 04, 2018
What We Think About When We Think About God…
Written By Jonah Venegas “Understanding these ways in which we use metaphors and descriptors to...
May 02, 2018
What Exactly Was Jesus’ Relationship With Prostitutes…?
What Exactly Was Jesus’ Relationship With Prostitutes…? “Christians need to decide if Jesus had genitals,...
April 2018
April 30, 2018
The Fourth Possibility C.S. Lewis Missed in His Infamous “Trilemma”…
“Jesus was either a liar, a lunatic, or Lord…” “I am trying here to prevent...
April 28, 2018
A Hermeneutic of Suspicion: What It Is and, Why You Should Be Suspicious if You’re Not Already…
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you...
April 25, 2018
What Happens to Your Brain When You Stop Believing in God?
We all have heard the statistics before (which I won't bore you with), but, millennials...
April 23, 2018
On Loving Difficult People And, Being Loved as a “Difficult Person”…
Saying “difficult people/person,” it’s both redundant and untrue. Because, while we’re each uniquely different, none...
April 22, 2018
Breaking the Cycle of a Toxic and Meaningless Negativity
Having been in and out of both progressive and conservative circles, communities, schools, and churches...
April 19, 2018
Are You Being Straw Manned?
Whatever happened to that "liberal" part of the Christian movement that was actually about doing...
April 12, 2018
Were Concealed Weapons Standard Practice for Men During Jesus’ Time?
In Luke 22:47-53, Ever wondered where Peter got that sword from when he chopped off...
April 09, 2018
In Defense of a “Heretic”: Racist, Bigoted, Right-Wing Populist or, None of the Above?
Written by Tylor Standley I found progressive Christianity during my attempt to find a community—a...
April 04, 2018
Did the Resurrection Really Happen? (Or, A Reason to Examine Your Faith)
Did the Resurrection Really happen? Like, the literal, physical, bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ... I mean, probably...
March 2018
March 29, 2018
When Congregants Have to Pastor the Pastors
Years ago I heard a story of a pastor who lost his faith. I’ve heard...
March 07, 2018
6 Tips On How Married Christians Can Embrace Single Adults
Written by Christena Cleveland (Note: Since many pastors, church leaders, and readers of this blog...
March 05, 2018
Lent, It Ain’t for the Oppressed (Here’s Why)…
Lent is Not for the Oppressed... In order for any of this to make sense,...
March 01, 2018
Gun Control and the Power of Disinformation
This tweet caught my eye and inspired my next two posts... In some cases, it’s...
February 2018
February 21, 2018
Three Reasons Billy Graham is Definitely Not an “Evangelical”
Three Reasons Billy Graham is Definitely Not an "Evangelical" Written by Tylor Standley It’s hard...
February 14, 2018
Loneliness In The Age Of Facebook: We Have Hundreds Of “Friends,” Why Do We Feel So Alone?
"We have hundreds of friends, why do we feel so alone?" A while back I...
February 12, 2018
How the Internet is Killing American Christianity
"How the Internet is Killing American Christianity" The question is valid, “How much more do...
February 07, 2018
When Being An American Pastor Conflicts With Following Jesus
Most pastors professing Jesus are actually hard-working but very insecure people-pleasers preaching in accordance with...
February 05, 2018
Millennials and Religion: Will a Lost Generation Ever Be Found?
Millennials and Religion: Will a Lost Generation Ever Be Found? In John Chapter 6 Jesus...
February 01, 2018
For Rachael Denhollander, and Abuse Victims, The Cost of Following Jesus is Apparently Being Silenced, Exiled and then Isolated by His “Followers”…
“There is an abhorrent lack of knowledge for the damage and devastation that sexual assault...
January 2018
January 30, 2018
Is Your Pastor a Psychopath? (Here’s Where they Rank in the Top Ten Professions with the Most Psychopaths)
On Sunday I went to my archives and reposted a guest post written by an...
January 26, 2018
American Pastors that Masquerade as Angels of Light…
“13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself...
January 17, 2018
Is the Most Segregated Hour of Christian America Still Eleven O’clock on Sunday Morning?
Church hopping is a lot like seeing other people when you’re dating someone else. But,...
January 15, 2018
Anesthesiological Heresy: How our American Gospel Segregates Us and then Keeps Us From Serving the Poor and the Powerless
In late August in the summer of 1968 a young civil rights activist took stage...
January 08, 2018
The Struggle of Calling People Into Spaces that Don’t Welcome the Marginalized
TL;DR This year a group of my friends decided to spend Christmas together. We're a very...
January 03, 2018
Calling Out Worship Music Snobbery…
Honestly, I’m not sure where this uniquely ironic form of snobbery stemmed from but, I’ve...
December 2017
December 29, 2017
7 Reasons Why I Choose to Continue Identifying as an Evangelical
Labels matter. Just think of your favorite brand names… what do they mean to you?...
December 25, 2017
The Evangelical Spin on the Biblical Nativity Story: Here’s Why the Evangelical Jesus is ALL Wrong
It’s bizarre, as I’ve disconnected from predominant privileged evangelicalism, how things I didn’t understand before...
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