Faith and Doubt
What Beyonce’s Halftime Show Reveals about the Evangelical Love/Hate Relationship with Human Sexuality
Beyonce is like mushrooms – people either love her or hate her. My Facebook and Twitter feeds lit up as soon as Beyonce appeared on the Superbowl XLVII halftime stage. I had visual whiplash as “Beyonce sucks” scrolled by immediately before “Way to go Beyonce!” Some complained that the show wasn’t family-friendly and compared the…
Read MoreGod’s Problem
This morning I read a post written by a mom of 2 from Texas to explain why she is raising her children without God. (Why, you ask, would I read such a thing? Because I think it’s good to try to understand where others are coming from, especially those who see the world very differently. The…
Read MoreTurning the Tables on the Interviewer: When Grief Mingles with Doubt [Video]
This conversation began as an interview about O Me of Little Faith: True Confessions of a Spiritual Weakling with author Jason Boyett. But toward the end of the conversation (it was far more of a conversation than a formal interview, as you will see), he started asking me questions. As we read your comments the…
Read MorePart Two of My Interview with a Spiritual Weakling + Book Giveaway
Yesterday, I shared the first part of my interview with self-confessed spiritual weakling Jason Boyett, author of O Me of Little Faith: True Confessions of a Spiritual Weakling, the Pocket Guide series, and several others (you can find them all listed here). Today I’m sharing the second half of our interview, in which we talk about fear, going public with…
Read MoreO Me of Little Faith: Interview with a Spiritual Weakling
Doubt is a lonely road because we find it so difficult to admit we’re on it. We’re afraid of being ostracized, quarantined, or just plain feared. The evangelical church creates a climate of fear: fear to learn anything that might not match up with what we think we know, and fear to express doubt or…
Read MoreBack In a Band
I played music in public on Sunday. It’s been four years (!!!) since I have been in a band. For five years, from 2004-2009, Scott and I helped lead the singing at a little church just a few miles down the road from our little first-time-homeowners house. I played the keyboard, sang into a mic…
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