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 …
Christian Universalism
The Bastard God
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 …
Trinitarian-Universalist-Progressive-Christian
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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Remembering Rachel Held Evans
One of the writers who has had the greatest impact on my spiritual life, my deconstruction journey, and has been deeply inspirational in my writing career is Rachel (Grace) Held Evans.
RHE was born June 8th 1981 and passed away …
Pondering Grace, Shame and Ethics
I am pondering something… Does shame have any place or validity in our lives?
About 20-24 years ago I was clinically depressed, a failed perfectionist, trapped in legalism and self-hatred. I was also very much “overweight” and …