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April 2015

April 21, 2015

Tony Jones’ Cross is a Symbol of Abuse (Or, How To Abuse Women Like A Pacifist)

[content note: domestic violence and spiritual abuse] If you spend a lot of time in...

April 06, 2015

Not Your Average Easter Story: A Review of “Walking Toward Resurrection”

If you were to ask me which writers have had the most influence on my...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

Is the Bible the Word of God? Or is Jesus? Or….

I'm not sure where the phrase "The Bible is not the Word of God; Jesus...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Liberating Liturgies: Anselm of Canterbury, and Jesus Our Mother

Today's Liberating Liturgy comes from an interesting source: Anselm of Canterbury, a monk who lived...

February 2014

February 12, 2014

Was Jesus Progressive For His Time?

Liberal/progressive/leftist Christians like to paint Jesus as an exceptional figure who fought for human rights...

December 2013

December 05, 2013

Who’s Afraid of the Baby Jesus?

Content note: brief mentions of child abuse, Christian patriarchy, Sovereign Grace Ministries I remember a...

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 26, 2013

If Jesus is Lord, then Caesar is not.

Last night at church, my pastor talked about the phrase "Jesus is Lord," and what...

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...

May 09, 2012

When your home church doesn’t feel like home

I've been away from my hometown in Michigan for four years now, but I'm back,...

April 2012

April 16, 2012

Relevant Magazine, Hugo Schwyzer, and a thing called grace

Trigger warnings for rape, abuse, stalking I believe in a thing called grace. Really, I...

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 13, 2012

It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship?

When I was growing up, and people asked about my religion, I would parrot the...

January 03, 2012

If the Bible had an F.A.Q. section…

Do you ever wish that the Bible had an F.A.Q. section? Or maybe it does,...

December 2011

December 26, 2011

Good tidings of great joy

At yesterday's annual family Christmas gathering, my mom was asked to do the impossible: gather...

October 2011

October 28, 2011

Sarah vs. Evil Overlord Depression

I don't remember exactly when I first started suffering from depression. It was probably around junior...

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 07, 2011

I saw love win today.

Today, as I was walking back from class, I noticed that my university's token street...

September 2011

September 17, 2011

Is the church a few steps behind?

I've never heard a pastor talk positively about the feminist movement. But when I read...

July 2011

July 21, 2011

Two wrongs don’t make a right…or do they?

When children repay violence with violence, we say, "Two wrongs don't make a right." When...

July 14, 2011

Conquering with kindness- guest post!

After reading yesterday's blog post about spiritual gifts, my anonymous male friend decided to reveal...

July 13, 2011

The wrong spiritual gift?

Update: for anyone who'd like to read my male friend's personal thoughts on this issue,...

July 07, 2011

Love by leaving

How do you love a boyfriend that abuses you? How do you treat an abusive...

October 2010

October 21, 2010

By his stripes

Christ was pierced for my transgressions. He was bruised for my sin... By his stripes...