Whenever people annoy me beyond reason, I can guarantee it’s because they’re demonstrating something I’d rather not see in myself.
We’ve relegated death, birth, and even making music to the professionals…all things that, until a few generations ago, used to be done by regular people like us in the home. What used to be natural — ...
We cannot create for ourselves God’s word of grace. We must tell it to each other. It’s a terribly inconvenient and oftentimes uncomfortable way for things to happen. Were we able to receive the word...
Until I face the difficulty of that question and come up, as Philip did, with no good answer… until then, I can only look at the seemingly limited space under the tent and think either it’s my job to...
Trent had just spent an hour describing what he learned as a kid from his church: how the only way to please God, the same being who created him with a sexuality to begin with, was to not engage with...
The last shall be first and the first shall be last. This is exactly, when it comes down to it, why most people do not believe in grace. It is fucking offensive.
The eunuch sought God despite the fact that he had heard that there was no love for him there.
The crucifixion portrayed on our show was undertaken by the son of God, a trained professional. Do not try to crucify yourself at home.
The Bible is not God. The Bible is simply the cradle that holds Christ.
Our purity systems, even those established with the best of intentions, do not make us holy.*4 They only create insiders and outsiders.
Oddly, it’s in these times that I feel closest to God. Not when I’m on a mountaintop, but when I’m lying in bed half-asleep, feeling defenseless. But as soon as my ego reengages, it’s game over.
My mother claims that the first time I said more than one word at a time, I skipped the two-word combinations altogether and went right to Do it self. Yes, thank you very much, I will do it myself. I...
My Christian faith tells me that good news is only good if it is for everyone, otherwise it's just ideology.
It was in those first couple months that I fell in love with liturgy, the ancient pattern of worship shared mainly in the Catholic, Lutheran, Orthodox, and Episcopal churches. It felt like a gift that...
If religion has been the venue in which the power of sex is taken most seriously, could it also become the place in which a new conversation about it arises? One that is not afflicted with legalism an...
For all the misguided harmful messages of my religious upbringing, I still cherish that I was raised in a family where things mattered. Our lives bore a continual inflection of faith. I belonged to a...
Everything else is temptation.
Che Guevara, since
Because in the end, we aren’t punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins.
This God, is revealed in Jesus Christ, who became flesh and walked among us full of grace and truth and who is so for us and with us that he would go to the grave on our behalf—when