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What If You’ve Been Worshipping a God Your Wounds Created?

What If You’ve Been Worshipping a God Your Wounds Created?

Why God Often Sounds Like the People Who Hurt Us
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Dan Foster
Navigating Church Conflict — A Lesson from the New Testament

Navigating Church Conflict — A Lesson from the New Testament

Euodia and Syntyche: A Case Study in Handling Church Disagreements.
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Paul Walker
What If the Bible Isn’t Always Right About God?

What If the Bible Isn’t Always Right About God?

Wrestling with Divine Violence, Sacred Scripture, and the God Revealed in Jesus
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Dan Foster
I Am the Older Brother in the Prodigal Son Story — and I Don’t Like It

I Am the Older Brother in the Prodigal Son Story — and I Don’t Like It

Why resentment comes easy, forgiveness comes hard, and grace still won’t give up on me
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Bri-anne Swan
Why Jesus Is Too Awkward For Many Christians

Why Jesus Is Too Awkward For Many Christians

We would kill him all over again today
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Nils von Kalm
Why the Bible’s Most Famous Screw-Up Might Be Its Most Honest Hero

Why the Bible’s Most Famous Screw-Up Might Be Its Most Honest Hero

What One Flawed Disciple Shows Us About Grace, Growth, and Getting Back Up
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Dan Foster
Why Not Going to Church Doesn’t Make You Any Less Christian

Why Not Going to Church Doesn’t Make You Any Less Christian

Reimagining Church Beyond the Walls That Have Wounded Us
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Dan Foster
The “MAGA” Man Who Opened the Door

The “MAGA” Man Who Opened the Door

And What He Revealed
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Erick Sierra
A Dancer’s Life

A Dancer’s Life

How Dancing Shaped Me Physically, Emotionally, Socially, Politically, and Spiritually
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Carolyn Ancell
The Breath That Holds Us

The Breath That Holds Us

How Scripture, Spirit, and the Mystery of Dying Reveal the God Who Breathes
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Paul Clarke
Does the Bible Have the Final Say?

Does the Bible Have the Final Say?

Rethinking Authority, Interpretation, and the Power We Give Away
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Paul Clarke
Turns Out, My Inner Critic Wasn’t the Holy Spirit After All

Turns Out, My Inner Critic Wasn’t the Holy Spirit After All

The Spirit is not the accuser
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Gary L Ellis
How To Love Others When You Don’t Feel Like It

How To Love Others When You Don’t Feel Like It

The ultimate test of giving
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Nils von Kalm
Heaven is Not a Gated Community — How Exclusive Religion is Just Plain Wrong

Heaven is Not a Gated Community — How Exclusive Religion is Just Plain Wrong

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Cedric Johnson, PhD
The Prosperity Gospel Is Just Capitalism in a Preacher’s Suit

The Prosperity Gospel Is Just Capitalism in a Preacher’s Suit

Looking at the megachurches and televangelists that turn prayers into profits
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Bri-anne Swan
12 Things I Thought Were Sins as a Kid (That Definitely Aren’t)

12 Things I Thought Were Sins as a Kid (That Definitely Aren’t)

How purity culture, fear, and shame shaped my view of God
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Dan Foster
The Creation Poem: What We Miss When We Read Genesis Literally

The Creation Poem: What We Miss When We Read Genesis Literally

Why Some Truths Can Only Be Told in Verse
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Paul Clarke
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