Jesus challenged people to love their enemies. I now interpret this as Jesus telling us to stop seeing others as our enemies.
If you’re a Democrat, the Republicans are not your enemies.
If you’re a Republican, the Democrats are not your …
Deconstruction
Love trumps the Bible
Even though I respect the Bible, I believe that love trumps the Bible:
As a teenager, there were other Christians in my life pointing out that Jonah is an allegory, there was no person literally swallowed by a big fish and surviving in its belly for three days. A …
Deconstructing Fleeces
Has anyone else had to deconstruct fleeces?
You know, the sheep’s fleece from the book of Judges? Gideon lays out a sheepskin “fleece” and says to God (I’m paraphrasing), “If it’s wet in the morning but the ground is dry, I’ll do such and such.” And then the opposite, …
Why I am Gender Egalitarian
I have been thinking a lot about sexism recently.
I listened to the The New Evangelicals podcast critique on Harrison Butker’s controversial speech in which he specifically addressed women who were about to graduate from college: “I would venture to guess that the …
This Mother’s Day: How my Mother and Motherhood Impacted my Deconstruction Journey
For many years, the month of May has symbolized mothers, motherhood, birth, and death, at least for me personally. Not only is Mother’s Day in the month of May, but I gave birth to my first living baby in May 2018 and my mother passed away May 5th 2011. Last year I pierced my ears a …