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 …
Reconstruction
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 …
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 …
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 …
God and Science are Not Incompatible
I attended a Pentecostal church for my nephew and niece’s dedication today. I was out of the room for most of the sermon (looking after my kids) but I heard the pastor say something about how scientists think God doesn’t exist because of the Big Bang and …