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The Five Stages of Grieving the Church
Denial I’m not hurt. Why does everyone think I’ve been hurt? I’m leaving on principle. On lots of principles. I’d be happy to sit down and explain elaborately, theologically, on why I choose...
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Jessica And Her Coat Of Many Colors
A year or more ago I was miserable. In a deep depression. Unable to even believe God was real anymore. I had been swimming, drowning, in legalism for a couple of years. Living in a spiritually...
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Before You Get Your Church Panties in a Bunch … {A Guest Post}
Today’s guest post is from another faith bloggin’ Jessica – J.K. McGuire from Jezamama. —————————————————————————– I hate plastic trees on church platforms. I remember standing on the stage trying to...
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Why I Don’t Like Church
Droves of people are leaving the church. It’s a statistical fact. Fewer – much fewer- are returning to the church. We officially fall into both camps. We’re over achievers like that. At the...
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The DeChurched
Jules from As Jules Is Going is talking a bit today about her passion for reaching out to the “Dechurched” or “Unchurched” of our generation. She asked me to write something from the perspective...
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The Seed In The Box
I “asked Jesus into my heart” when I was 10 years old. Then I left him there for about 15 years. There were no outward signs of “fruit” in my life. Because my Jesus was dormant. He was there, the...
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On How The Bible Belt Whooped Us
When I first sat down to write for Spiritual Abuse Awareness Week my tongue and fingers were perpetually tied. I would open a document, struggle through a few sentences, deem them crap, and give up....
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I’m Not Good At Easter
Seriously. I’m not good at Easter. I think the issue is that I’m not good at collective churchism. Or “corporate worship” (what a terrible phrase) or whatever. I don’t feel the big group dynamic...
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Church Club
I’m over at A Deeper Story today talking church, generational divides, playgrounds. Click the link below if you’d like to check it out. Holy Social Club Jessica The post Church Club appeared first...
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So What Do We Do in House Church? {Leaving the church – Part 5}
So, I’ve been talking a bit about our journey in leaving the IC (institutional church) but I haven’t said much yet about what we’re doing instead. And I understand that’s an imbalanced message –...
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