Geoffrey Holsclaw
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 […]
People deconstructing faith have questions about the Bible. They are often deconstructing a fundamentalist view of the Bible And I used to say things like pastor Timothy Keller that just don’t help. “Contemporary people tend to examine the Bible, looking for things they can’t accept; but Christians should allow the Bible to examine us, looking […]
What prompts deconstruction? An article from The Gospel Coalition, by pastor Joshua Ryan Butler, caused quite a stir on my Facebook stream yesterday. In it Bulter diagnoses the 4 Causes of Deconstruction. He uses a diagnosis / cure structure, claiming that deconstruction doesn’t really cure people the way they hope. I think many believe Butler […]
We don’t need to focus so much on balancing faith and doubt. We need to GET OUT OF OUR BRAINS and back into OUR BODIES. Or better, we need to realize that every brain is essentially embodied, flowing with emotions and embedded in relationships. Isn’t Enough Saying that we need a little more doubt […]
I was wrong. I was out of date. I had a much too narrow understanding of “progressive” when I talked about (and criticized) progressive Christians. In times of social transition WORDS CHANGE. A word changes because people change, cultures change, and institutions change. And right now it seems that “progressive” has come to name that […]
It’s OK to Go Back to a church, to community, to seeking, and trying—to trying to believe. To walk away to create distance for honest processing of disappointment, to admit that you don’t understand, to listen to others—that’s OK. And to return is OK too. Community is hard to leave. And it’s hard to return. […]
It’s OK to do those Jesus-y things while deconstructing faith. Because it is WHAT WE DO that activates WHAT WE KNOW. In other words, can we normalize continuing to follow how Jesus lived while we deconstruct, rather than putting on a practical agnosticism or atheism? Too often I’ve know people who have genuine questions and […]
For all of us…it’s OK we’re asking questions while deconstructing. But can we ALSOs normalize BEING ASKED questions by others, of being REDIRECTED by those who have gone before us? Are we open to shifting our “AWAY FROM” to a NEW WAY? I’m saying this in the context of already acknowledging that sometimes we need […]
Can we stop placing “deconstruction” on a continuum between conservative beliefs that are transformed/updated/revised into more progressive ones? Instead, there is modern fundamentalism in the West pretending to represent ALL OF CHRISTIANITY. And we need to deconstruct it in favor of the historical, ancient faith. The process of many exevangelicals is to fault conservative […]