Spiritual schizophrenia and the two-headed snake
"How long will you try to go both ways?" Elijah cried. When God's people opt into spiritual schizophrenia, they empower a two-headed snake.
Counting the cost, going with God
Counting the cost, going with God, may not look as we have thought. It may mean saying yes to the Lord Jesus and following him where our church culture forbids.
Sabotage, coerce, shame: Bullying in the church
It’s agonizing to be bullied – and it can happen to an adult, in the church. People eager to control, plot to sabotage, coerce, shame.
Bucking the system: Shunning, submission, Jesus
Jesus grew up in a religious system God had instigated, and people had hijacked to use for their own ends. Jesus’ life shows us when and how to buck the system.
Walking on the water to Jesus
Rejected by church systems and their leaders. Yet profoundly affirmed by God. Here's my story of walking on the water to meet Jesus when he made the way.
Women, false responsibility and the church
A distorted view of “women’s responsibility” is deeply embedded in the church. Here’s what people may expect of us – but God does not.
This “good Christian girl” is a woman now
Grown, yet unaware my view of women was far more Confederate than biblical, I was a good Christian girl. This girl is a woman now, a woman going with God.
O say, can you see … what I did not?
Evil can deceive us far more subtly and far more thoroughly than we have believed possible. O say, can you see … what I did not?.
Recognizing the world in church clothing
Lord Jesus, show me when the church is not the church. Expose the world in church clothing – a system competing with God for my heart.
Exploited in the church, but Leah no more
As unloved Leah did Jacob, a woman can give herself to a church culture that exploits her – while rejecting her personhood, her adulthood, her worth, her.