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July 2022

July 05, 2022

Why American Evangelicals Aren’t Modern-Day Daniels

Many White American Evangelicals consider themselves modern-day Daniels. Heroes in their own minds, they love...

July 02, 2022

Contemplative Prayer: Hearing from God When You’re Deconstructing

Contemplative prayer is beginning with the ending. Most of us end our prayers with the...

July 02, 2022

How To Pray When You’re Deconstructing

Christians who deconstruct their faith often feel so overwhelmed with questions without answers that prayer...

June 2022

June 29, 2022

“Christian Mantras: Hearing from God When You’re Deconstructing”

Mantra meditation can be an effective way for Christians to hear from God when they...

June 27, 2022

Lectio Divina: Hearing from God When You’re Deconstructing

During the deconstruction process, Christians often say it's difficult to hear from God. All the...

June 24, 2022

The Eye of the Be-Holder: How to Experience Divine Beauty

The phrase, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” contains a hidden spiritual truth...

June 22, 2022

Christians Should Stop Saying They Feel Convicted

"I feel convicted that I need to give to support that missionary." "I feel convicted that I need to...

June 18, 2022

“Are Christians God’s Public Relations Committee?”

Why do Christians find it necessary to prove God, or to defend God, to other...

June 16, 2022

Moses is Your Satan

In medieval artwork, Moses is hard to distinguish from the devil. Could there be a...

June 14, 2022

Chopping Down the Tree of Life: How We’re Disconnecting from the Divine

When my family left the intrusion of the city and the noise of neighbors, I...

June 11, 2022

“The Jesus Pill: Does Getting Saved Solve All Your Problems?”

My client was in prison, addicted to drugs, and had reached out to my program...

June 08, 2022

For All Who Have Walked Out of Church

This is for all who have walked out of the church. Some of you left...

June 04, 2022

Selling Your Soul to the Creeds: When The Church Makes You Sign on the Dotted Line

Since when did Christianity require people to sign on the dotted line? It must be...

June 01, 2022

What Does Biblical Marriage REALLY Look Like?

Not long after Marriage Equality was passed, the Baptist association of which my church was...

May 2022

May 30, 2022

The Bible Contains Mistakes–So Does All Great Art

"You're saying there are contradictions in the Bible!" screamed the irate church member after one...

May 27, 2022

America is Shooting Herself

America is shooting herself. No other nation on the planet can shoot themselves as well...

May 25, 2022

Breaking the Window to Get Outside

Why do churches have stained glass? I joke that the reason is to let in...

May 23, 2022

Singer Walker Hayes and Pastor Craig Allen Cooper Release Book “Glad You’re Here,” a Story of Incarnational Love

Country singer Walker Hayes stepped out on a limb with “Craig,” a love song to...

May 20, 2022

Theology of the Polished Turd

In the beginning, God made a turd. And God breathed into it the breath of...

May 18, 2022

Can a Christian Use Muslim Prayer Beads?

If you struggle with anxiety, using a rosary may help. There are many Christian rosaries...

May 16, 2022

War and Peace Within One Soul

One person called me their human Xanax. Another person called me the family hothead. How...

May 13, 2022

5 ½ Things You Can Do To Make Jesus Come Again

How can Christians make Jesus come again? First-century Pharisees believed that if every Jewish person...

May 09, 2022

When You Are the Burning Bush: “On Fire for God” Isn’t so Hot

Being on fire for God sounds great when you speak Christianese. But sometimes it doesn’t...

May 08, 2022

Atonement to the Father Vs. Attunement to the Mother

Is it atonement to God the Father, or attunement to God the Mother that brings...

May 05, 2022

What’s the Best Way for Churches to Do Benevolence?

The disheveled couple looked nervously into the faces of gathered Deacons. They wore their awkwardness...

May 03, 2022

Can Church Music Be Saved from Bad Theology?

Has your changing faith made certain church songs difficult for you to sing? Does Christian...

May 01, 2022

That Saved a WHAT Like Me??? – Church Music and Deconstruction

Many people going through faith deconstruction say they have difficulty with hymns and worship music....

April 2022

April 27, 2022

Not THAT Kind of Christian!

Yesterday, I got confronted with my secret--it had finally gotten out. I was talking with...

April 25, 2022

Wrestling with God Builds Spiritual Muscle

As boys, my brother and I loved to wrestle. Many of our friends grew up...

April 23, 2022

If You See God, Kill Him! – Separating God From Our Beliefs About God

“If you see the Buddha, kill him,” say the Buddhists. What a strange thing from...