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beloved, with Brian Recker

Christian spirituality without the dogma. The whole point is love, or I don't want it.

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The Gospel According to Ms. Rachel

What if our politics and theology started with the flourishing of children?

Caste in Drag

On Ex-Gay Theology, Queer Drag & The Hidden Theater of Heterosexual Order (by William Matthews)

Gay Girl, Bad God

Leaving a Bad God to Find a Better One: A Black Queer Theology of Pruning, Change, and Rebirth (guest essay by Ciarra Jones)

The Art of Disappointing the Right People

On growing up closeted, Pride, and why telling the truth is worth the people you lose.

From the Ashes of Defeat

How a Trans Pastor Reclaimed the Gospel and Her Humanity

Getting Rid of God

What to do when the old language for God stops working

Peace Through Strength Was Never Peace

How Trump's unhinged tweet reveals what America has always been

Jesus the War-God

how did the prince of peace become a mascot for death?

Hellbent on War? w Brian Recker & Jarrod McKenna

A recording from Brian Recker and Jarrod McKenna's live video

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Is Jeffrey Epstein in Hell?

Why Hell Isn’t Enough—and What God’s Justice Might Actually Look Like

Defanging Jesus

The Compromised Gospel of Personal Salvation vs. the Gospel of Collective Liberation

This System Doesn't Want Witnesses

Why “Don’t Tread on Me” Has Always Meant Don’t Tread on Whiteness

A World of Neighbors

Shifting from Christian Separatism to Human Solidarity

Why Wake Up Dead Man Made Me Miss Being a Pastor

What This Movie Gets Right and TGC Gets Wrong About Cheap Grace and the Purpose of the Church

Escapist Christianity Is Killing Our Spirituality

the gospel does not call us to evacuate this world but to heal it

Bearing With Each Other’s Crash-Outs

on a recent DM conflict, being called a liar, and setting boundaries

Talking to Boys about Misogyny (and other small revolutions)

A Q+A Grab-Bag of Spicy Questions and Sincere Answers

Liturgies For Resisting Empire

Undoing empire's binary thinking

A hell bent conversation with Brian Recker

A recording from Brian Recker and 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

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Does Everyone Deserve to Eat?

How SNAP cuts expose the punitive gospel of MAGA Christianity