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2016-10-16T18:48:10-06:00

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How Purity Culture Challenged My Self-Worth and Fueled My Eating Disorder

Last updated on: October 16, 2016 at 6:48 pm By Guest Contributor

If you grew up listening to conservative Evangelical teachings, you know that it’s hard to define exactly when the indoctrination settled in. It’s always been a part of you, and it takes years to distinguish fear-based beliefs from reality. Read more

2016-10-13T17:40:41-06:00

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The Real Story Behind Genesis

Last updated on: October 13, 2016 at 5:40 pm By Guest Contributor

The first chapters of Genesis were not written to communicate history or science. Creation stories had an entirely different purpose in the Ancient Near East. Read more

2016-10-14T16:24:10-06:00

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Of Cheerios and Trump

Last updated on: October 14, 2016 at 4:24 pm By Guest Contributor

God forbid we use our hands to hurt and harm others. God forbid we lose our moral sensitivity, shedding our mantles of gentleness in exchange for crowns of putrid misogyny, and racist, insufferable vitriol. Read more

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2016-10-10T15:35:06-06:00

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Politics Aside: Addressing the Dignity of Women

Last updated on: October 10, 2016 at 3:35 pm By Guest Contributor

What was most disappointing to me in the hours and days that followed the breaking story of Donald Trump and his own explicit and degrading comments about women was how much this was all about politics. Still. Read more

2016-10-09T20:38:59-06:00

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Cracked Humanity

Last updated on: October 9, 2016 at 8:38 pm By Guest Contributor

We're sitting in a huge barn, an open kitchen to one side and a coffee service area to the other. Read more

Christian Spirituality

Cherie Lee

2016-10-16T10:43:58-06:00

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Lost in Translation

Last updated on: October 16, 2016 at 10:43 am By Guest Contributor

I realized there was a major difference in my translations of this particular chapter--it's titled The Parable of the Shrewd Manager in the NIV, but The Parable of the Crooked Manager in The Message. Read more

2016-10-14T11:19:28-06:00

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Dispensationalism: A Doctrine More Dangerous Than Hell Itself

Last updated on: October 14, 2016 at 11:19 am By Matthew Distefano

It is high time we abandon this plainly stupid (for lack of a better word) doctrine, as it has done more than enough damage already. Read more

2016-10-03T08:45:16-06:00

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Bearing Witness, Feeling Helpless, and Straining to Hear

Last updated on: October 3, 2016 at 8:45 am By Guest Contributor

We live in a rape culture that teaches our girls, women, and anyone not living within prescribed heteronormative gender roles that it is up to them not to get raped. Read more

2016-09-27T21:39:54-06:00

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How Denominations Destroy Faith

Last updated on: September 27, 2016 at 9:39 pm By Guest Contributor

There is a lot we can learn from each other as we share our differing perspectives and understandings of Jesus. That is, if we can dare to be a little vulnerable and admit that maybe we don’t have God all figured out. Read more

2016-09-26T22:05:05-06:00

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Why a Perfect God Can Only Lead to Atheism

Last updated on: September 26, 2016 at 10:05 pm By Guest Contributor

An immutable God cannot move, cannot act, but can only exist as the opposite from everything else, like some divine dark matter. Read more

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