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June 2015

June 09, 2015

12 Reasons Why You Can Totally Call God “Mother”

This is written in response to this laughable post published by fellow Patheos author Fr....

September 2014

September 17, 2014

Liberating Liturgies: A Creed and a Call

A Creed... Recently, while at work, I was thinking about the Apostles’ Creed, and how...

July 2014

July 25, 2014

#FaithFeminisms: I Know God Because I Know Feminism

I've heard many Christian feminists say that they are a feminist because of Jesus—because of...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

On Proverbs, Job, and Why Victim Blaming is Next to Blasphemy

I've been taking a class on the Psalms and Wisdom Literature, and reading both the...

October 2013

October 09, 2013

Resurrection and the Surviving God

Content Note: brief description of a suicide attempt This past year, around Easter, I planned...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

I write from my wounds and they don’t hear Jesus

Today I saw a tweet by a liberal (?), progressive (?), doesn't-think-gay-people-should-have-sex-but-probably-changed-their-FB-profile-picture-to-the-HRC-logo-a-few-months-ago (yeah, that's it)...

August 2013

August 05, 2013

Maybe God is a “bitch”

In the months following my decision to leave fundamentalism for good, I began to shy...

June 2013

June 08, 2013

God as a woman, seeking out the marginalized

One of the most popular images of God in the Bible is the image of...

May 2013

May 01, 2013

God is not really a king.

I've been thinking a lot about my deepest held images of God: why do I...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

Spiritual Abuse Awareness Week: My Guest Post at Rachel Held Evans

Today I'm guest posting at Rachel Held Evans' blog, talking about abuse and images of...

March 11, 2013

Must reads!

Lots of posts that I want to share this week. I hope you'll check them...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Account and Countenance

Trigger Warning for intimate partner violence/verbal abuse and spiritual abuse I'm on a guest-posting streak...

December 2012

December 16, 2012

Why?

Trigger Warning for discussion of Sandy Hook Elementary shootings Why? I guess that's what everyone's...

November 2012

November 15, 2012

In Praise of the Doubting Thomas–A Book Review

My friend Travis Mamone has a new ebook out. It's called In Praise of the Doubting...

August 2012

August 04, 2012

Intangible Christianity

I was raised to believe that salvation was a shadow of things to come. An...

July 2012

July 28, 2012

Mother-Father God

I'm still reading through Sexism and God-Talk by Rosemary Radford Ruether, and seriously, y'all, this book is...

May 2012

May 21, 2012

Can you tell the difference?

An apparently all-powerful entity that crushes all those who rebel... ...that excessively blesses some while...

May 17, 2012

Fear or Love?

Growing up in a Fundamental Baptist high school, I heard some ridiculous arguments against feminism....

April 2012

April 06, 2012

Never going back

Trigger Warning for Abuse I used to be in an abusive relationship. Once, I broke...

March 2012

March 22, 2012

Our Mother who art in heaven…

I'm trying this new thing where I don't just think of God as a man....

January 2012

January 23, 2012

When I went to an Episcopal Church

Abe and I didn't know much about the Episcopal Church when we went there yesterday...

October 2011

October 22, 2011

Sometimes I believe Mark Driscoll.

I'm sorry my writing has been so sporadic lately. I've been busy with school and...

October 10, 2011

God loves Mark Driscoll (and everyone else)

God is love. God doesn't hate anyone. God poured his wrath on on Himself, because He loved...

September 2011

September 22, 2011

Feeling the world’s brokenness…

Do you ever feel the brokenness of the world? Do you ever hurt with the...

August 2011

August 23, 2011

Find God’s will for your life…or else!

You know what will drive you absolutely bonkers? Trying to find God's will for your...

July 2011

July 12, 2011

The problem with generalization

I have been unable to avoid thinking about the issue of gender roles in our...

June 2011

June 13, 2011

What I learned from the turtles

Over the weekend, my best friend and I got our first tattoos. Mine looks like...

June 12, 2011

Love may Win, but Environment Loses (via Images and Words)

My boyfriend decided to judge Rob Bell before reading his book. Check out his blog...

December 2010

December 10, 2010

Sometimes I yell at God.

I hesitate to write this post, since, with my previous posts about cutting, I am...

August 2010

August 10, 2010

Love, in a word.

Today I was asked to define the word "love" in less than 25 words...