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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....

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...

March 16, 2015

Reconciling God and Evolution, Part 1: The World Between The Covers Of A Book

More and more millennials are accepting evolution as true, and society's attitude toward evolution is, well,...

October 2014

October 10, 2014

Liberating Liturgies: Virgin Mary and the Purity Myth

I have some more thoughts on Liberating Liturgies for you today. I'm going to keep...

October 01, 2014

Liberating Liturgies: Blessed Be (A Guest Post By Lesley-Anne Evans)

Today's Liberating Liturgy is drawn from the Beatitudes, and comes to us from poet, Lesley-Anne...

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...

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...

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...

June 11, 2014

A Benediction for My Fellow Queer Christians

For personal safety reasons, I'm going to ask anyone who chooses to share this post...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Modest Is Hottest: A Guest Post for No Shame Movement

Today, I'm over at No Shame Movement sharing my story about growing up in Christian purity...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

Can detachment from others serve life?

Calls for empathy and compassion toward oppressors and abusers are popular in American Christianity. I...

January 08, 2014

Proverbs of Ashes and suffering to save our oppressors

I'm currently reading through Proverbs of Ashes by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker. In the...

January 03, 2014

#PlanetCCM: Five Iron Frenzy, the Soundtrack to My Deconversion (and Reconversion)

Content Note: Discussion of suicide and depression My husband (fiancé at the time) went to...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Embodied Faith is a Faith I Can Live With

Today, I'm guest posting at Suzannah Paul's blog on the topic of Embodied Faith. This...

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...

August 02, 2013

Yup, the REAL problem with the church is Millennials saying “YOLO”

I'm going to start out by saying that I actually go to a church, and...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

From the archives: A Church “Building Project” that Made a Difference

This post was originally published on December 7, 2012 Many churches get super excited about...

July 23, 2013

Learning the Words: Justice

The blog Defeating the Dragons (by fellow ex-fundamentalist, Samantha) is running a series of guest...

July 21, 2013

“You Are Not Your Own:” Women are objects, or weaker animals