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Fear and Silence: Gays, AIDS, and the Church, Part 2

  If you were a conservative Christian girl in the 90s, you probably know the phrase ‘screaming silver-blue eyes’.  The Christy Miller Series was almost mandatory reading for our little sub-culture generation.  And we tried to emulate this role model of holy femininity.  So when Christy journaled, we journaled, and when Christy wrote letters to…

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A Resurrected Faith

  I have become like one who has no strength, lost among the dead. Will your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? Will your wonders be known in the dark?   Sometimes you don’t know how close to death you were until you’ve been pulled out of the grave.  I’ve spent a long time in…

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Did I Think About Staying?

give me the heart of an archeologist, that I may dig until I prove that I exist. a subterranean cathedral in my midst, where echoes come to rest. where echoes come to rest. is this where echoes come to rest? -Sleeping At Last   A year ago I said leaving Evangelicalism probably wasn’t the answer…

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A Tender Thaw

  I’m guest posting for my friend Kelly today on coming alive and how painful it can be.  Here’s a little snippet (and also why I bawled through Frozen).   Be honest.  Be vulnerable.  It’s home group, small group, community group, so it’s safe here.  This is how you build strong friendships.  Real community, the…

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How IHOP Made Me Hate God

It’s all so tangled.  It’s the bordering on financial ruin, the taking ‘handouts’ from the state, but being ignored by the church.  It’s a marriage flirting with collapse and being told not to discuss it. It’s so hard to sort out what is human incompetence, personality differences, normal conflicts in relationships, and spiritual abuse, damaging…

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Welcoming the Gentiles

The mountain of the Lord and the house of God shall be visible…All the Gentiles shall come to it…..He will proclaim His way to us, and we shall walk in it….They shall beat their swords into plows and their spears into pruning hooks….neither shall they learn war anymore….come and let us walk in the light…

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Choosing Ritual and Religion to Find Relationship

  Why an Episcopal Church, some people have asked me, and the simple answer is ‘because of Madeleine L’Engle’.  But the actual answer involves Lauren Winner, Phyllis Tickle, Sara Miles, and Barbara Brown Taylor, a messy year, random Twitter conversations, and a blog post by a Pentecostal preacher.  How can I describe what reading books and seeing a…

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