If you grew up listening to conservative Evangelical teachings, you know that it’s hard to define exactly when the indoctrination settled in. It’s always been a part of you, and it takes years to distinguish fear-based beliefs from reality. Read more
The first chapters of Genesis were not written to communicate history or science. Creation stories had an entirely different purpose in the Ancient Near East. Read more
God forbid we use our hands to hurt and harm others. God forbid we lose our moral sensitivity, shedding our mantles of gentleness in exchange for crowns of putrid misogyny, and racist, insufferable vitriol. Read more
What was most disappointing to me in the hours and days that followed the breaking story of Donald Trump and his own explicit and degrading comments about women was how much this was all about politics. Still. Read more
We're sitting in a huge barn, an open kitchen to one side and a coffee service area to the other. Read more
I realized there was a major difference in my translations of this particular chapter--it's titled The Parable of the Shrewd Manager in the NIV, but The Parable of the Crooked Manager in The Message. Read more
It is high time we abandon this plainly stupid (for lack of a better word) doctrine, as it has done more than enough damage already. Read more
We live in a rape culture that teaches our girls, women, and anyone not living within prescribed heteronormative gender roles that it is up to them not to get raped. Read more
There is a lot we can learn from each other as we share our differing perspectives and understandings of Jesus. That is, if we can dare to be a little vulnerable and admit that maybe we don’t have God all figured out. Read more
An immutable God cannot move, cannot act, but can only exist as the opposite from everything else, like some divine dark matter. Read more
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