EDJ
Evangelical Deconstruction Journey
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 May 4th 2019 before her …
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 …
Do you believe in angels and demons?
What do you believe about them?
Has that belief evolved?
I really want to hear your stories as well because I think this helps me make sense of how and why my own perceptions might be changing.
As a child, I think I blew them up to be …
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 …
What is hellfire?
The expression “burn in hell” comes from multiple places in the Bible. There are references to the “Lake of fire” in the book of Revelation, the “fire of Gehenna” which is translated “fire of hell” in the synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and …