Like Jesus, we need to overturn the tables of those peddling gender hierarchies within the temple of our bodies.
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Surrender to Love is Dangerous
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 […]
God’s demonstration of love: “While we were still weak…Christ died for the ungodly” (Rom. 5: 6). The character of love is revealed in the midst of weakness. • False love—as narcissism—preys on weakness rather than protecting it. • False love—as self-loathing—points out weakness rather than providing for it. • False love—as fear—hides from weakness rather than […]
Interesting that Faith, Hope, Grace, and Charity are women’s names, not men’s names (at least in English speaking West). Does this point to the feminization of the church in the West? Perhaps. But I doubt it. (picture credit: Faith, Hope and Charity, by James Christensen) Maybe the Work of God is Always A Critique of […]
Our clients’ relationships with God are not the sum total of their early human relationships, or the internalization of those relationships. While seemingly obvious from a theoretical perspective, extensive training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, without complementary experience in the spiritual disciples and spiritual direction, likely biases us toward reducing our client’s “God” to the internalized mother […]