The Weekly Religion Roundup | Issue 1

Friday, October 13, 2017 WHAT I WROTE: Article(s) published online this week… I’m Ready to Start Writing Again In this write-up, I share why I took an extended break from writing and how my desire to craft a novel has inspired me to start again. From my blog post: Something new is happening for me creatively, and…

I’m ready to write again…

I haven’t blogged here in quite a while because I haven’t really felt inspired to write anything. Four years ago, it would have been impossible for me to fathom the experience of living without any inclination to write. Around that time, I had been writing for a few years about leaving Christian fundamentalism and the…

Now that the World Has Changed: A post-election essay on racism and the state of Christianity

I have watched the new era of our democracy unfold while harboring intense reserves of both fear and anguish. Like most of my friends, I’ve found it nearly impossible to escape the weight of sadness that comes with knowing that 81 percent of my white Christian counterparts chose to elect a Presidential candidate who was…

The Bible isn’t unchanging steel. It’s malleable clay.

It occurred to me that we do indeed think of the Bible as something that has been “given” to us by God, when we should think of the Bible as a collection of texts to which we’ve given numerous interpretations throughout history. We think of the Bible as something that has given us a specific narrative about the world, without acknowledging that we are, in fact, the ones who assign and propagate biblical narratives.