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“We failed her. We didn’t tell her about Jesus.” {A Dialogue That Changed My...
*trigger warning for violence* Yesterday I told the story of when I left Calvinism behind. Today I will talk about hell, and tomorrow I will talk about when my entire foundation fell (while in Europe)....
View ArticleGospel that Weeps, Breaks, and Rejoices
This post is a response to What is the Purpose of International Missions? Or rather, this is no response at all, because I am broken, doubting the words I choose to share, binding up the wounds I make,...
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...
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Love Will Win the Day
I am studying in a Canadian university right now. I love the deep conversations with PhD bound students in graduate seminars where we hash out concepts I’d never hear anywhere else. But intellectual...
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Redefining Our Condition
Last week I critiqued the modern problem of missions as a modernity problem, not a Christian problem per se. That is, I saw modern missions as one of the means Western people use to “modernize” the...
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The 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...
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Don’t Compromise EVAR, Moron
This post was triggered by this outstanding paragraph by Frank Schaeffer, son of one of the most famous evangelicals of the 20th century. In other words, the big guys said it. So did my family. I grew...
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I Question It, But I Still Love Missions
People are very cynical these days about western Christianity, particularly Catholic and Evangelical churches and ministries. In a way I’ve been apart of this spirit because I’ve asked homeschoolers if...
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The Space Between Where We Meet
After I wrote my post yesterday on a personal glimpse of why I fell in love with missions, I realized a lot more needs to be said. In fact, I think we are wanderers in the church. We don’t know where...
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I Believe in Relation, and I am a Universalist
Recently I wrote a post on Overturning Tables by R.L. Stollar on my journey from fundamentalism to universalism. Stollar as you know all is cofounder and coordinator for Homeschoolers Anonymous, and...
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How I Became More Understanding of Missionaries
I keep saying I’m going to write-up about the weaknesses (and the really bad part) in missions, and also, write about how I think missions should function differently. Before I throw myself into those...
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Social Justice is That’s Nothing like the Internet
I lived in SE Asia for three years. I am going back, maybe sooner than I think. Life was difficult and busy. I did not blog or read blogs. I did not tweet. Instead I took care of troubled kids: and...
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Missions, Premodernism, and History
Modernism still remains so embedded in my brain, but every now and then, I have a rupture where I see through it. This happened the other day when I was reading Gadamer. Last year I took a graduate...
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Did I Divorce the Church?
Laura Parker is one of my favorite bloggers. Fact: her blog is one of the best Christian blogs around. Laura paints and tells stories in such convincing tones. Her post today “Bride and Divoce” grasped...
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...
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We Say We Believe in God’s Presence . . . Until We Are Missionaries
At my old church in South East Asia, we prayed one prayer more than any other. Or maybe two. But there was one prayer that kept coming up over and over – Lord, let your kingdom come, on earth. Or, let...
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Mission Field Problems: What Should Be Different?
Last week I wrote about the ethics of converting other people’s children, particularly on the missions field. Since I came back to the states, I’ve really struggled on how to process, unlearn, and...
View ArticleSo Much Bigotry Comes Down to the Doctrine of Hell
When I gave up believing in a traditional notion of hell, I did not really choose to stop believing in hell. It just stopped making sense. Think about it this way. Imagine that someone tells you to...
View ArticleI’m Done with the Evangelical Church
One of my favorite bloggers, Benjamin at Formerly Fundie (note: best blog on patheos), wrote a piece called The Day Evangelicalism Died. As most of you know from the news, earlier this week when the...
View ArticleThe Limits of Our Mental Health Professions
I got an email from a dear friend I worked closely with overseas, and all I can do is weep because I feel so detached from it all. As a child, my image of God was that he would heal and rescue the...
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