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September 2017

September 14, 2017

Dear Resistance

That whisper in your ear that you are unqualified, not smart enough, brave enough, faithful...

September 06, 2017

What’s So Confusing About Grace?

The answer to the question posed by the title of Randal Rauser's new book, What's...

August 2017

August 07, 2017

Faith in the Fog: Love as Our Compass

Love is my compass and my guiding light for life, here and now. That's the...

July 2017

July 12, 2017

The Middle Ground of Racism

Those of you who don’t feel the urgency to speak out: Are you really cool...

July 05, 2017

The Ideology of Jesus

Jesus seemed to have zero concern for social norms or ideologies of those who he...

July 03, 2017

To My Conservative Christian Friends

Those who support the Muslim Ban, are adamantly against universal healthcare, yet call themselves pro-life...

May 2017

May 15, 2017

I Don’t Want to Be an American Christian, I Just Want to Follow Jesus

The label American Christian is largely and globally associated with negative connotations.

May 01, 2017

It’s Okay to Love Your Religion without Forcing People to Convert

Why does the idea of simply trying to follow Jesus, loving others, and NOT trying...

April 2017

April 08, 2017

An Open Letter from the Syrian Border

Self-proclaimed Christian nation, I wish the lives of others mattered to you as much as...

April 07, 2017

One God

Several years ago, after going through a very troubling church experience, I went through a...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

This Is Red Letter Love

What exactly is red letter Love? I mean, we all know the great command to...

March 24, 2017

I Desire Mercy, Not Masochism

In the fourteenth century Europe was struck by the bubonic plague, the deadliest disease outbreak...

March 22, 2017

Our Fire Is Ruining Facebook

I have been told that I can come off too harsh in my outspoken opposition...

March 13, 2017

The Greatest of These

I am not a very good Christian any more. I used to think that under...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Not Your White Jesus

Jesus is not a white guy. I hate to break it to you, but all...

February 22, 2017

People, Not Projects: Re-Thinking Evangelism

We need to re-think evangelism--what it means and should look like.

February 17, 2017

Showing Love

Christians talk a lot about standing up for our beliefs and doctrines. It seems we often...

February 06, 2017

The Love of My Refugee Friend

American Christians, those who support the refugee ban, I have a friend I would like...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

Let Love Reign! Never Trump-ism!

Trump-ism represents some of the worst of the isms that would diminish our lives and...

November 18, 2016

Crying out in the Wilderness: A Lamentation

Here we are, as a species, teetering on the edge of ruin. We’ve flattened Syria...

September 2016

September 09, 2016

To the hate preacher at Pride

Pastor M. showed up and began telling people they would go straight to hell if...

September 07, 2016

Grace in a Tin Shed

Separation. Divorce. Failure. That’s how it goes, right? At least that’s how it did for...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

Love, Love, Love: The painfully misunderstood, profoundly simple, earth-shattering message of Jesus

If someone was to ask me to sum up the message of Jesus in a...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

The Spirituality of Bass Fishing

Bass fishing has given me a new enthusiasm for life, and a new enthusiasm to love...

May 11, 2016

No Condemnation!

I wanted to believe that it was God speaking to me, but I couldn’t because...

February 2016

February 01, 2016

The Gospel of Hate

Yesterday I was confronted with the gospel of hate. I was watching a TV show...

July 2015

July 06, 2015

Speak the Truth in Love

"Speak the truth in love" is a phrase that some Christians love to toss out...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

Love Doesn’t Really Win (or does it?)

On Friday, June 19, Dylann Roof, charged with nine counts of murder in the shooting...

June 18, 2015

Warning! This World Has Redefined the Word Love

A UC reader recently shared this image via our Facebook Page. Since we’ve tackled “Christian”...

August 2014

August 07, 2014

Stupid Religion

I just had another one of those conversations. The conversation I seem to have a...

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