Sheep need a shepherd because there are wolves.

We still have never celebrated Jubilee. Not once.

How did we get here? There are many, many threads. This is one of them.

Picture a car crash. A bad one. That’s where it starts: in the smoking wreckage of your life.

The women (and men) in my community lost EVERYTHING getting away from this religious, pseudo-Christian, patriarchal abuse.

This passage is not primarily a cosmic drama about Satan. It’s a reality check about human leaders who believe their own hype.

Wrath is not intrinsic to God’s nature. God is love. God is holy. God is just. But God is not wrath.

The word discipleship  gets thrown around a lot. And by its generally accepted definition in evangelical circles, this word is supposed to convey the idea that you're being a 'disciple' of Jesus, specifically. There's supposed to be a notion of 'imitation' here. But what happens when discipleship is actually conditioning -- not leading people to Jesus, but training them to conform to a system that ultimately serves the institution? We "condition" someone or something becaus