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How Jesus Became God; or, When the Divine Realm is Like a High School Cafeteria

What is divinity? What does it mean to be divine? Is there a pyramid-scale of divine status? In other words, is divinity like a high school cafeteria with all the cools seniors at one end and the dorky freshmen at the other? Today I’m continuing the video series on “Why Bart Ehrman is Cheating” in […]

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Deconstruction

It’s OK to Go Back (Lesson #6: Deconstructing Faith on the Road to Emmaus)

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. […]