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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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