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“God” is Not a Person?

Or, why progressive-liberals are as trapped by the modern, literalistic reductions as evangelical-fundamentalists.

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“And Then Christianity Is Last”

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date September 13, 2022
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It seems the churches in America would be doing much better if we stopped worrying so much about being last! Which is why so many fundamentalist-evangelicals have it so wrong.

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“Stay in your lane” regarding therapy and theology!

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date August 8, 2022
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The easy answer is that Christianity lost its authority through abuse and the shift into post-Christendom. But there are deeper realities too.

Tags Faith, God, neuroscience, theology, therapist, therapy

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Four Definitions of the Radical Middle: Or, Why It Isn’t For Wishy-Washy Wimps

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date July 7, 2022
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Should Christians even be moderate about anything, whishy-washy, watering-down whimps? Or should we take a stand?

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Do therapists have too much power?

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date June 24, 2022
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Therapists are the new priests of our post-secular world. Are they tempted to work out their own agendas in the work of their clients (just like it is claimed that pastors do)?

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Are We More Susceptible to Shame?

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date June 17, 2022
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Could it be that our cultural emphasis on overcoming/avoiding SHAME is not because we are more aware of shame’s negative effects, but because as a culture we have lost the ability to REGULATE SHAME?

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Enemy Love as Forgiveness; or, Unsystematic Thought’s on God’s Love #6

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date June 14, 2022
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Jesus breaks the “in group” bias of forgiveness for those like us and the “out group” fault-finding of those others. In the presence of an enemy, will we… • Attack, or attune?• Escalate, or empathize?• War, or reconcile? It is clear how God responded… “While we enemies, we were reconciled to God through the […]

Tags enemies, forgive, forgiveness, forgiving, God, gospel, Jesus, Love, Salvation

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Our Traumatized Social Nervous System

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date May 26, 2022
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TV, talks shows, Op-Eds, and especially social media, are shrinking our windows of tolerance, passing on and amplifying messages of crisis and calamity,

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3 Tragic Results of the Disembodied Faith of SBC Leadership; or, Why the Truth of Sexual Abuse is Never a Distraction

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date May 24, 2022
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Thinking the truth of sexual abuse would be a distraction means we don’t know the gospel of the crucified and risen Lord, and that we have a disembodied faith. The disembodied faith of SBC leadership causes 3 tragic results… • The debasement of bodies (primarily of women and minorities)• The distortion of truth (as a […]

Tags abuse, church, disembodied faith, God, gospel, Jesus, sbc

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While We Were Still Enemies: or, Unsystematic Thought’s on God’s Love #5

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date May 12, 2022
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As I continue reflecting and growing in my awareness of God’s love for me, I’m thinking of enemies. Seems Christians on both sides are done with their enemies on the other side, would rather they just disappeared (or were destroyed). But God demonstrates a different kind of enemy-love. What Enemies Reveal Like weakness, the presence […]