Before I was called to Christianity, I spent twenty years studying the various religious systems of the world. Among the ones I was especially drawn to was Zen Buddhism. Currently, I am attending seminary, because I have to in order to get ordained, and taking HTH 100 — History of…

I identify as a trans woman. The logic of this particular point in history, when pronouns are at the center of a large conversation, is that I should request, or insist, that other people refer to me using traditionally female pronouns — she/her — as a sign of respect for…

I believe that a homosexual Christian can live as if they were heterosexual. That’s quite a statement, and anyone who reads it might very easily assume that I hold beliefs that I do not even remotely agree with. Nevertheless, I do believe it is true. I’m a Christian — I…

Some faith traditions put a great emphasis on Christ’s suffering, to the point that I find it more than a little disturbing. I’ve never seen The Passion of the Christ and don’t intend to, because A) Mel Gibson is a lousy director, and B) someone who liked it told me…

I was listening to an interview with Nadia Bolz-Weber, and she started on her standard riff about how shame is bad and we don’t have to be ashamed because, really, all of us are equally shitty and sinful, but God loves us all anyway, because God is just special that…

Christianity in America is, for the most part, a slurry of sexism, homophobia, racism and toxic masculinity. The country is more divided now than it has been since the Civil War. The recently leaked SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade feels like a test, like the conservative justices are…

Jesus is the embodiment of love and forgiveness. By His reckoning, the entirety of the Hebrew scriptures, which Christians call the Old Testament, could be summed up as love God and love your neighbor as yourself, (Mark 12:30–31, Matthew 22:36–40). Technically, from our perspective, Jesus left out the third part…

I stopped going to church when my parents stopped making me — when I was fifteen or so. I wasn’t opposed to church, but I also wasn’t particularly motivated to get up and get dressed on Sunday morning if no one was telling me to. Christianity meant a lot to…

The entirety of atheism can be summed up in four words, “There is no God”. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. There are many people who believe that there is no God understand that there really isn’t anything else to say on the subject, and therefore they talk…