If you seek to restore relationships with those you’ve lost, start with these four questions: What do you love? What have you lost? Where does it hurt? What do you dream?

We must change the container of our spirituality before filling it with something new. Pouring progressive ideas into a dualistic, ego-driven, fundamentalist operating system is spiritual malpractice. Or, as Albert Einstein quipped, “No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it.”

If you want 2024 to be different than 2023, start today by taking an inventory of the last twelve months. Be honest with yourself about the good and the bad.

We need a new voice to awaken us to our planet’s cries for survival. We need someone brave enough and strange enough to cut through the madness of normality to tell us our culture is insane.

Living in the United States is a daily dose of trauma. In no other developed country can you go bankrupt for getting sick or going to college. We are the only nation who is OK with killing kids in school.

You are the second coming of Christ.

If there was a poet laureate of the deconstruction community, it would be Mary Oliver.

Deconstruction is a natural part of the cycle of spiritual renewal. And this cycle, like the cycle of the seasons, requires the death of the old before something better can germinate, take root, and grow in its place

Barbie became human, why can’t you become Divine?

Books, especially good ones, have the power to change your life. If you let them, they can build empathy, increase awareness, and break down walls of separation. Here’s 8 books that changed my life and why!

There is a direct link between the recovery community and the exvangelical community, and that link is trauma.

This is my queer body, broken for you.

Sometimes the most oppressive, controlling, and domineering forces in life are close friends and family, or at least the folks who knew you when.

Have you ever just wanted a roadmap or guide to deconstruction? Here’s some help.

At some point in your faith deconstruction journey, you are going to have to ask the big question: Do I even stay Christian?

Silent Saturday reveals not a triumphant, dominator God, but a God most fully known as an abandoned, brutalized, brown man lying naked on a cold slab. Today exposes God at his worst, or maybe at her best.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Jesus embodied a form of faith unfathomable to fundamentalism. He understood the more you know, the more you don’t know. The looser your grip on right and wrong, the greater your grasp of transformative wisdom.

God did not kill Jesus. Jesus was killed by law and order allied with religion.

Critical Race Theory has become a sort of dog whistle for white evangelicals who continue to believe the myth of American exceptionalism while hiding America’s original sin of white supremacy.