After the week we’ve just had here in Tennessee, with wind chills below zero several days in a row, it’s hard to believe that, on December 30, I’m writing this blog post out on my deck in 60-degree weather. As the clock ticks toward the end of 2022, I want to briefly pause my ongoing […]
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A few years ago, a pastor-friend helped me see how fear was sabotaging my life. Ironically, I discovered that the fear doing the most damage was rooted in religion. You can read more about this part of my spiritual journey in the first few posts of this blog series. Today, I want to explore what the
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People begin a deconstruction process for many reasons. This post explores the role of religion-based fear in deconstruction.
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Back in the 1970s and 80s, practically every church had a 16 mm reel-to-reel film projector in its basement. It was the youth pastor’s VCR DVD YouTube of its day. Occasionally, they would show films to the entire church—which is how, at age eight, I came to see two low-budget Christian films called “A Thief in
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