Holy Heretics
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Stabbed In the Back (opens the original)
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At 9:45 yesterday morning, a dementia riddled rapist stood before the United Nations General Assembly and delivered a 37-minute speech teeming with threats, lies, and sweeping claims of American greatness. Trump stayed mostly on script until he came to the war in Iran. Then the rhetoric took a dark turn. What followed was difficult to comprehend coming from a sitting American president. This wasn’t just another globally embarrassing moment in a presidency awash in absurdity. The President of the
But I Don’t Want to Go That Way (opens the original)
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If you’ve been reading along this summer, you know we’ve embarked on a quest to uncover the heart of faith, searching for glimpses of our spiritual inheritance buried beneath centuries of imperial Christianity.We started this series (Christianity Before Belief) with Jesus’ origin story, asking a heretical question: What if Jesus came not to show us what only God can do, but to show us what humanity can become? From there, we pulled the thr
Beliefs Are Bullshit (opens the original)
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“Beliefs are bullshit.”It was an odd opening from a priest, especially in church. I threw my wife a bombastic side-eye, wondering what the hell we had gotten ourselves into. We were new to the church, and signed up for a contemplative life group exploring the mystical streams of Christianity. I guess we were expecting conversations about meditation and centering prayer, or maybe a few spiritual practices to take home and try. We certainly weren’t prepared for this tattooed priest to tell us our
Walking With Them (opens the original)
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Our girls are all but grown and off to university. One head-deep in a world of words, best friends with dead poets and Gothic writers like Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and Oscar Wilde. The other singing her little heart out, seeking her truest voice in the rhythm and resolve of song. One finding herself in old stories; the other breathing life into clas… Read more
Losing Our Way (opens the original)
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I proclaim it every Sunday. Somewhere between the sermon and the prayers of the people, the congregation stands to recite the Nicene Creed. We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made,<br
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