Sarah vs. Evil Overlord Depression
I don’t remember exactly when I first started suffering from depression. It was probably around junior high. Back then, depression would waltz in and out of my life. It would stick around for a few...
View ArticleGood tidings of great joy
Image by Tom duBois At yesterday’s annual family Christmas gathering, my mom was asked to do the impossible: gather up my younger cousins and get them to sit still long enough for her to tell them the...
View ArticleOn the manic, dysfunctional, flaky God
Yesterday, I took a risk and finally started talking about the spiritual issues that I’ve been wrestling with for about a year now. Even though I stated that if the Baptist theology I grew up with is...
View ArticleIf the Bible had an F.A.Q. section…
Do you ever wish that the Bible had an F.A.Q. section? Or maybe it does, and I just haven’t found it yet. Some Christians probably have–you know, the one’s who are always saying, “The Bible clearly...
View ArticleIt’s not a religion, it’s a relationship?
When I was growing up, and people asked about my religion, I would parrot the phrase I’d heard from countless well-meaning pastors, Sunday school teachers, and friends. You know the one… “It’s not a...
View ArticleOur Mother who art in heaven…
I’m trying this new thing where I don’t just think of God as a man. Where I get this image out of my head that God is an old man that looks like Gandalf and has Morgan Freeman’s voice. Where I let God...
View ArticleNever going back
Trigger Warning for Abuse I used to be in an abusive relationship. Once, I broke up with him, and he threatened to kill me for it. I was in his car, and I told him I didn’t want to be with him anymore....
View ArticleRelevant Magazine, Hugo Schwyzer, and a thing called grace
Trigger warnings for rape, abuse, stalking I believe in a thing called grace. Really, I do. I believe people can change, and when people change, I believe in giving those people a second chance. But...
View ArticleWhen your home church doesn’t feel like home
I’ve been away from my hometown in Michigan for four years now, but I’m back, for at least a year. Only it doesn’t feel like home right now. Parts do. I get along with my parents better than I ever...
View ArticleSo, who IS this man? (a book review)
I was recently asked to read and review John Ortberg’s new book, Who Is This Man? After the last Christian book I was asked to review, I was kind of squeamish to pick this one up. But I actually had a...
View ArticleGod is not really a king.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my deepest held images of God: why do I hold them? Where do they come from? What do they say about the Christian faith I was raised in? What do they say about me? How do...
View ArticleGod as a woman, seeking out the marginalized
One of the most popular images of God in the Bible is the image of God the shepherd. Through this image, we see God as a humble, but loving and protective man. A man who wants all of his sheep–99 out...
View ArticleMaybe God is a “bitch”
In the months following my decision to leave fundamentalism for good, I began to shy away from the idea of God as a God of wrath. No, how could God be wrathful? God is love. God isn’t angry at us. God...
View ArticleIf Jesus is Lord, then Caesar is not.
Last night at church, my pastor talked about the phrase “Jesus is Lord,” and what that phrase means. After church, a fellow church goer was wanting to start a conversation about what “Jesus is Lord”...
View ArticleI write from my wounds and they don’t hear Jesus
Today I saw a tweet by a liberal (?), progressive (?), doesn’t-think-gay-people-should-have-sex-but-probably-changed-their-FB-profile-picture-to-the-HRC-logo-a-few-months-ago (yeah, that’s it)...
View ArticleResurrection and the Surviving God
Content Note: brief description of a suicide attempt This past year, around Easter, I planned on writing some posts about crucifixion and resurrection. I found I couldn’t really get past the former. I...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of the Baby Jesus?
Content note: brief mentions of child abuse, Christian patriarchy, Sovereign Grace Ministries I remember a sermon I heard during chapel at my old Christian college around Christmas time. The speaker...
View ArticleWas Jesus Progressive For His Time?
Liberal/progressive/leftist Christians like to paint Jesus as an exceptional figure who fought for human rights centuries before anyone else did. You’ve probably heard, or said something like the...
View ArticleGood tidings of great joy
Image by Tom duBois At yesterday’s annual family Christmas gathering, my mom was asked to do the impossible: gather up my younger cousins and get them to sit still long enough for her to tell them the...
View ArticleOn the manic, dysfunctional, flaky God
Yesterday, I took a risk and finally started talking about the spiritual issues that I’ve been wrestling with for about a year now. Even though I stated that if the Baptist theology I grew up with is...
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