If there is no consequence or judgment then what is the purpose of right and wrong? Why defend the helpless and vulnerable? Why do good? The answer seems so obvious to me that I wonder if I’m missing something. Is the question more complicated than I’m understanding it to be? I doubt it would be [...]

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Would it not be a violation of free will for God to include those who have deliberately chosen by their will to refuse or reject God? I could take this question in a million directions but instead I’m going to give an answer that ends before everyone’s attention span does. It might be close. I [...]

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So you know how it goes. Someone on the opposite side of an issue, oh let’s say about being gay and Christian for an example, asks you a question but you know they aren’t asking because they really want to hear what you have to say. Instead they ignore the answer you labored thoughtfully over [...]

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Monday morning. Gray skies with a chance of rain. And me at the computer with a cup of lukewarm coffee and a mishmash of questions on sin, judgment and hell swirling around in my head. I usually just have my caffeine with a splash of milk and a spoon of sweetener. In my post on [...]

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Because our faith as Christians is such a personal thing for each of us, (we don’t call it a personal relationship with God through Christ without reason!) I tend to stay away from grinding through Christian doctrines and specific theological concepts on this blog unless they directly impact the spiritual reconciliation of GLBTQ people. This [...]

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Maybe I should ease into this post by doing my usual schtick of rambling around the edges before getting to the point, and there are times, believe it or not, when opinionated and straightforward me taps lightly around my beliefs because I know for those located in, or coming from, a conservative Christian tradition as [...]

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Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem. And more than once, that impression which I can’t describe except by saying it’s like the [...]

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How long will grown men and women in this world keep drawing in their coloring books an image of God that makes them sad? – Meister Eckhart I’m not a big fan of coloring books for children, the ones with the thick black outlines with the white space between them that all but demands where [...]

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I understand the perfect love of God imperfectly. I’m setting down two basic truths here. One, that the love of God is perfect love, and two, that I will never be able to comprehend such love. By perfect love, I mean perrrrrrfect. A love that’s flawless, incomparable, and most excellent in all the world and [...]

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My stream of consciousness on the love of God begins. Jump into the water if you dare. God is Love. The love of God is at the forefront of God’s being. God doesn’t merely demonstrate love outward toward us, but the ground and substance of God’s being is Love. Love is more than an attribute [...]

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