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2017-12-21T17:27:12-06:00

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My Best Reads from 2017

Last updated on: December 21, 2017 at 5:27 pm By Rebecca Florence Miller

Just a quick post for you bibliophiles out there. I read a lot of books every year. This year, in no particular order, here are some that really stood out. A number of them are not new books. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green I have struggled with OCD at least since my teen years, and this YA novel by John Green is the only fictional work I’ve experienced that really “gets” what it’s like inside my head... Read more

2017-12-04T17:07:53-06:00

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A New Normal: Grief and Facing the Brokenness in Evangelicalism

Last updated on: December 4, 2017 at 5:07 pm By Rebecca Florence Miller

My heart has ached and almost broken as I have seen leaders I admired again and again and again show they have no godly judgment, that they can excuse evil whenever it is convenient for their politics, which reign supreme. Read more

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2017-11-16T17:42:43-06:00

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An Interview with the Christian and Atheist Friends Who Host the Podcast ASSUMPTIONS

Last updated on: November 16, 2017 at 5:42 pm By Rebecca Florence Miller

I wrote about Daniel Melvill Jones and Kyle Marshall’s podcast, Assumptions, previously here. The constructive dialogue these two good friends have achieved in their discussions resonates with me as someone who also aspires to communicate respectfully with people who are different from me. In my writing here on the blog, and in discussions below posts, I’ve been privileged to get to know a number of people who come from far different perspectives, including atheists and agnostics. Some have even become off-blog... Read more

2017-11-13T12:56:53-06:00

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Our Response to Sexual Abuse Should Not Be a Partisan Sport

Last updated on: November 13, 2017 at 12:56 pm By Rebecca Florence Miller

Sexual abuse. I’m tired of it all. I’m tired of the rampant disrespect shown to women in this society. Read more

2017-11-03T21:28:29-06:00

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#Loser: How the Call of Christ Is Antithetical to Trump’s Gospel

Last updated on: November 3, 2017 at 9:28 pm By Rebecca Florence Miller

Donald Trump’s Gospel is as follows: success means being dominant over everyone else, at all cost; the only true happiness in life is being able to be a winner, not a #loser. What Trump Values To tell what a person values, we must see what he treats with disgust. And over and over again, President Trump has shown that what matters most to him is domination, winning, and success. Recognize any of these?: “I like the people who don’t get... Read more

2017-10-12T15:22:20-06:00

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Conflict and Challenge, instead of Cheap Grace

Last updated on: October 12, 2017 at 3:22 pm By Rebecca Florence Miller

“Don’t hate,” the Facebook commenter said to me after I stated a position about a current event. I hadn’t said anything hateful. I had said something challenging. It isn’t the first time I’ve heard this kind of response. While the right wing (along with certain progressives like President Obama) rightly criticizes the fragility on college campuses these days, the right–including the religious right–has its own problem. So without denying the problem on the liberal side, I would like to speak... Read more

2017-10-10T15:53:33-06:00

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OCD, Stephen King’s IT, and Facing Our Fear

Last updated on: October 10, 2017 at 3:53 pm By Rebecca Florence Miller

OCD and Fear I have struggled with bouts of OCD since my teenage years. When I first began to experience intrusive thoughts, terrified, I tried to run from them. To relieve the anxiety, I engaged in compulsions, repetitive activities that feel like control without actually being control. And so I purged my belongings, obsessively washed my hands, and compulsively confessed real and imagined sins. And I tried so hard my brain hurt not to think my intrusive thoughts. But the... Read more

2017-10-12T15:04:01-06:00

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What My LGBT Neighbors Teach Me

Last updated on: October 12, 2017 at 3:04 pm By Rebecca Florence Miller

I want to talk about something that has been on my heart for a while now. Christian friends, we need another way forward. It’s time all of us take a deep look inside and note how our community and even we individually have ravaged, traumatized, abused, and deeply wounded the LGBT community. This shouldn’t be about what we can get out of it. This shouldn’t be about controlling an outcome with the gay people in our lives. It... Read more

2017-09-23T19:59:29-06:00

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“No Fair!”: A God Who Longs to Show Mercy–To Illegal Immigrants, ISIS, and You and Me

Last updated on: September 23, 2017 at 7:59 pm By Rebecca Florence Miller

The Bible passages for today can be found here. This week, I heard a story on NPR of a little baby, born in the United States to now-undocumented parents who had overstayed their visas in the US: “When 2-month-old Isaac Enrique Sanchez was diagnosed with pyloric stenosis, a condition that causes vomiting, dehydration and weight loss in infants.” They were told they had to go to Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas for the operation Isaac needed. They wanted... Read more

Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

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2017-09-18T06:08:23-06:00

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Christian Superiority Complexes and the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

Last updated on: September 18, 2017 at 6:08 am By Rebecca Florence Miller

We don’t think we need the mercy of God. We don’t think we need the mercy of other people. Read more

Parable of Unforgiving Servant

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