Christian nationalism is not one thing. A Theos survey of 1,765 UK adults found five distinct groups, and the one closest to it is the most nominal in its Christianity. What does that mean for how the Church responds?
What do you see when you look at another person? When you look at someone you love, or when you look at someone you are scared of? What if we learned to see everyone first and foremost as a beloved child of God, carrying the foretaste of future glory within their fragile and fallible form….
Did the Exodus happen? The honest answer is more layered than yes or no. This post looks at who was actually in Egypt, what they carried out with them, and why a small story can still carry a big truth.
Genesis and Exodus read like one continuous story about how Israel began. But a handful of connecting verses are all that hold them together — and many scholars think they started out as two separate, even rival, accounts.
Everyone knows the story of Joseph and his coat — but was any of it real? This post looks at what we can actually know about Joseph’s Egypt, and why the answer matters more than a simple yes or no.
Over the weekend I was at an event I’ve been going to four times a year for about five years. I have friends there, and a space where I belong. I am free to be who I am, and be accepted and loved for who I am. It has been another home for me, especially…
Most of the church’s rules about sex focus on who and what. This post asks a different question: are you actually paying attention to the person you’re with? A starting point for a more honest sexual ethic.
Fear is the enemy. In the Dune books by Frank Herbert the main character calls fear the mind killer. It prevents us from acting, it holds us back, it keeps us trapped in it’s own special chains. But the Bible tells us that God does not give us a Spirit of fear but of power,…
What Actually Is Masking? The Camouflaged Self An Illusion of Choice with Masking What Does Masking Feel Like? Carrying The Shopping When Can I Be Me? What Do We Mean When We Talk About Integrity? Rethinking Integrity in Relationship to Masking Moses, Jesus, and The Veil Accepting a Hidden Identity Who Gets Let In and…
What happens when you get a pastor who doesn’t relate emotionally to their congregation? How can that work or be healthy? Shouldn’t the pastor of a church, the minister to a congregation, care deeply and passionately about the people in their care? What happens when that person is me? I am someone who doesn’t particularly…