EDJ
Evangelical Deconstruction Journey
The Bible contradicts itself. I found this really difficult to accept when I first went to Bible college. But the more I studied theology, the more constructive arguments I could make for why “aionios” is mistranslated “eternal” when it should be translated “age to come” or refer to a …
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This Easter Sunday I want to remind the world as RHE did in 2014f that "God is not a man. God is not white. God is not American."
Don't let the Easter story be hijacked by ideas about God's sex or gender. God transcends and includes masculine, feminine, and transgender …
Over twenty years ago, I started writing a book (I use this phrase loosely because the book was never published) called “The Bastard God and the Prodigious God” or “The Bastard God” for short. Bastard, of course, is another word for “illegitimate.” At the ripe old ages of 17-22, I slowly …
My statement of reconstructed faith as a Trinitarian-Universalist-Progressive-Christian:
I’m completely queer-affirming. I do not believe being gay/bi/lesbian/transgender etc is a sin. I affirm that God created queer people in the image of God, the way they are.
I affirm women …
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On this Martin Luther King Jr day in the United States, I am reading a brilliant book, A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I highly recommend this book whether you are American or a citizen of the world. I consider myself a citizen of the world …
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