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A Wounded, Secret Jesus Feminist

“The cracks were ricocheting and multiplying across my heart now, and when I turned to the Church for answers, I did not feel my questions were welcome.” – Jesus Feminist How do you not stay bitter?  How do you let go of the anger, the hurts, the soul-deep wounds Christians have inflicted? Lean into the…

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And Now, A Story

I will search for you in the shadows I will search for you in the light I will search for you in the morning I will search for you in the night -Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors   Once upon a time, there was a wooden fence that embraced a large piece of land.  There…

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Pastor-Kings and Servant Leaders

  “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”- C.S. Lewis   Sometimes Christian leadership feels like God is continually handing us Sauls, saying, ‘you wanted a leader,…

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When On-Fire Ends in Embers

  Though it pales in comparison To the overarching shadows,  A speck of light can reignite the sun And swallow darkness whole. – Sleeping At Last   He said “ Many of those stories highlight the bad parts of growing up evangelical.”  And he’s right.  My best memories and most formative moments happened over 9 summers…

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We Wanted the Fire to Be Popular

    “Our need is for {people} who can set the church ablaze for God, not in a noisy, showy way, but with an intense and quiet heat that melts and moves everything for God.” – E.M. Bounds   We were trying to make Jesus appealing to people.  Our youth group would rent out our…

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Shedding A Faith

  I have been formed by a culture of newness.  Even my existence is a testimony to the strength of the Shepherding Movement, and the only dead theologians I knew of until I was an adult were C.S. Lewis and Martin Luther. It was my two years at a Lutheran school that cemented the belief…

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Apparantly I’m Entitled, and I Don’t Care

  I’m becoming a little tired of the responses to that RHE article that just dismiss her points as being caused by being a spoiled, entitled millennial. Because you know what?  We aren’t. Leaving, partially leaving, or considering leaving this culture that we grew up in is painful.  It feels like a slow amputation, and…

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True Womanhood – Affirming Female Ordination?

  One of the things I dislike most about fundamentalism is that it automatically pits people against each other. I hate that the premise of this study is, if you don’t agree, you don’t have the truth, and your faith in Jesus is questioned. “…knowing those truths, and they are truths, about biblical womanhood, how…

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True Womanhood – Death to Certainty

  “A true woman is a true human being who, at her best, displays all the best qualities of humankind.  Other than the physiological differences, a woman who puts her mind to it can do anything a man can do.” So says a random woman on the street.  Hey, something in the study that I…

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