One fateful night, when I was fourteen, my family visited the Pentecostal church affiliated with “Christian school.” The preacher that night invited people to come down the front and receive the “baptism of the Holy Spirit, evidenced by the gift of tongues.” I was curious about speaking in …
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Did I find God at Wild Goose Festival 2023?
Yes and no—as is so often the answer to most questions lol.
I found people at Wild Goose. People who mostly believe in the divine, who have diverse opinions and interpretations of the Spirit—the goose. And as I interacted with the broad range of possibilities, I sensed the Spirit of …
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My Deconstruction Journey
Deconstruction has perhaps accelerated in recent years, but I suspect that deconstruction is part of the evolutionary / biological process of the human species. We tend to evolve to new understandings, new ways of looking at things, new scientific discoveries, and so we deconstruct the religious …
Contemplating Easter
I have been contemplating my past and present concepts of Easter and would like to share a blogpost that simply poured out of me this week:
As a young Evangelical child, I was taught that Jesus died in my place, more-or-less as punishment for my sins. God, being perfect—and particularly …
Reconstructing the Eternality of hell
The phrase His love endures forever is repeated 26 times in Psalm 136 (NIV) alone. Other translations use phrases like his mercy endures forever (NKJV); his faithful love endures forever (NLT); his steadfast love endures forever (ESV); his lovingkindness is …