Tag: faith
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Leaving a church as a kind of immigration
I was chatting with a friend recently who likened the idea of leaving a church as a kind of “immigration.” This idea intrigued me. Because one of the first questions I hear people ask when anyone leaves a church, “Are they still Christian?” and similar questions that I believe are very shame inducing. I don’t…
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Gender Roles Short Circuit the Path to Self Knowledge
I had mentioned in a previous post how I had read and discussed Aimee Byrd’s Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood with the pastoral staff at my church. One of our early questions/critiques was that Byrd never defines what it means to be a man or a woman. Our initial discussion surmised that she did…
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Revisiting Faith, Gender, and Identity
I’ve been meaning to write about faith, gender, and identity for a while… or at the very least put my current thoughts in process here like a time capsule so I can trace my progression in the future. I’ve definitely come to some conclusions that I would not have been able to articulate a few…