God is Dead, Part 1
Edit: The Death of God is a philosophical construct that stands for secularism. One can be a theist and still believe in the death of God (I’m one of those) because, well, secularism is the air we...
View ArticleCaught Between Two Ages
*trigger warning for sex trade* I’ve often said that I’ve felt misplaced. I’ve been saying this since I was a little girl of 6 or 8, but I was born in the wrong age. Initially this was because I was...
View ArticleWhat is Modernity?
I am writing a short 3-part series on modernity, postmodernity, and why I am disillusioned by secularism and progress. By no means do I mean for this to be exhaustive. In fact, in this post I will...
View ArticleThe Church Needs to Create Space for Grief
I have a new theory about what the church needs in order survive. I think this post rings true for non-religious people, too, so this is not a theology talk. But I do think that this is crucial for the...
View ArticleReclaiming Something Worth Dying For {And as a Fundie, I Used to Believe….}
When I left evangelicalism, I got depressed. It was a living nightmare. After I wrote my post on how the Duggars are not crazy, it hit me head on that I actually left a part of me that was extremely...
View ArticleWhen Tragedy Becomes Opportunity
I. A recent post by Jamie the Very Worse missionary helped got me thinking more about the problems that we see in misisons. It’s no secret that I believe the North American Church has really screwed...
View ArticleRedemption of the Past
Nietzsche theorized that people turn to religion to take revenge on time. People are born, other people control their lives, pain and sadness come. Life sucks. Everyone is sad inside. Christianity...
View ArticleMyth of Relativism
Growing up Christian conservative, I had a lot of misconceptions about what secular people and even postmodern Christians believed about right and wrong. I had a pessimistic view of ethics, believing...
View ArticleDoes God Possess Qualities of Goodness?
The other day I was on an online debate forum discussing hell when someone commented that God is infinitely good, and therefore, we must trust God’s reason for casting the unbeliever into eternal...
View ArticleThe Problem With Truth {An Irrational Defense of God}
Note: the big idea in this entry comes from an old friend Brandon. In science, in philosophy, and in all intelligible discourse, we try to prove that we are right using various tools, usually logic and...
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