Today, I’m guest posting at Suzannah Paul’s blog on the topic of Embodied Faith. This is a really important topic to me–the idea that my faith matters to my body and to the experiences I have in my body has been so healing and freeing for me. So, I hope you’ll check out my post and the other posts in Suzannah’s series on Embodied Faith! Here’s a quick preview: What theological insight can I gain from my body and from... Read more
This is the second post in a short series I’ve been working on about the problems that privilege brings in Christian pacifist circles. The first post can be found here. I’m also linking this post up to the Political Jesus synchroblog–The New Pacifism. In my last post on pacifism, I discussed the tendency of many privileged pacifists to shame survivors who do not react to abuse in “approved” non-violent ways. I wrote about how it’s dehumanizing to hear people who... Read more
Here are some awesome posts from the past few weeks from elsewhere in the blogosphere. I hope you’ll take the time to check them out! Liss Says Stuff #3: Devil’s Advocate by Melissa McEwan Devil’s Advocacy seeks to turn the intimate aspects of one’s life into an abstract discussion. This Is Why I Talk About This Stuff by BRACE If you think that ableism ends at the top of a ramp, you have gotten lost somewhere. Why Our Notions of... Read more
I wrote this post a few days ago and had it scheduled for today, but since h00die_R is hosting a synchroblog at Political Jesus on the topic of pacifism, I thought I’d link up! Check it out and see if you’d be interested in participating. I’ve been thinking about pacifism lately. It’s come up in my church, in Twitter discussions, and in blog posts. This is not a response specifically to any recent discussions of pacifism, but since it keeps coming up... Read more
Today, I have a guest post for you all from T E Hanna. He shares his thoughts–from the perspective of a male pastor–on reclaiming and embracing feminine images for God. T E Hanna is the author of Raising Ephesus: Christian Hope for a Post-Christian Age and he writes regularly on issues of faith and culture on his blog at TEHanna.com. In 2007, the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life released a short synopsis of the gender makeup of the various world religions that shape... Read more
(Update: Now with 100% more Ron Swanson gifs, inspired by my Facebook friend Neal) Pray for me, friends. I shall need a few days to recover from this. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered that Douglas Wilson and John Piper did a roundtable on the topics of “homosexuality, abortion, and race.” I don’t know what possessed me to do this, but I watched the dang thing, and I shared some choice quotes on Twitter yesterday. Much of this video... Read more
Lately I’ve noticed that many liberal Christians do this thing where they accuse other liberal Christians of being “liberal fundamentalists.” Are these accusations of “liberal fundamentalism” warranted? I’m thinking back over the times when I or a friend of mine has been called a “liberal fundamentalist:” When I asked a popular Christian blogger to stop repeatedly using a slur. When a queer friend criticized the organization NALT because of Dan Savage’s (who has a history of biphobia, transphobia, rape apology,... Read more
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 mean, I’m a skeptic on the idea of the literal resurrection of Jesus to begin with, but I found I couldn’t even envision a risen God. A victorious living God. A suffering God? A dying God? An oppressed God? Yeah, I could see that. I could see... Read more
Here are some important, interesting, and eye-opening posts. I’ve been excited all week to share some of these, so I hope you’ll take the time to read them! B’reishit: The Divine Act of Self-Creation by Emily Aviva Kapor God speaks the world into creation; I speak myself into creation. Queer Creation: Queering the Image of God by Alan Hooker ‘Male and female [God] created them’. Male and female…The ‘and’ is not a binary ‘and’. Male and femalecan disclose a spectrum of varied gender... Read more
Content Note: Brief Mentions of Rape/Sexual Abuse [Disclaimer: This is a story of my personal experience, not a universal prescription for how people should react to sex. Obviously others have different experiences and what not. Those other experiences are valid, but so is mine] I didn’t wait until marriage to have sex. If I’d heard someone admit that when I was younger, I might have gasped. I might have thought, “You didn’t wait until marriage? What’s wrong with you? How... Read more
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