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he gift but idea flits in again mercy and goodness are stubborn and they pursue relentlessly i wish i could truly learn how to just stop running one time monthly yearly make a one time donation make a monthly donation make a yearly donation choose an amount 5 00 15 00 100 00 5 00 15 00 100 00 5 00 15 00 100 00 or enter a custom amount your contribution is appreciated your contribution is appreciated your contribution is appreciated donate donate monthly donate yearly leave a comment filed under uncategorized tagged as faith jesus life love writing april 7 2026 6 01 pm hatred runs strong one of the things that has grieved me over the years in 2015 i thought that surely the grab em by the comment would end his support among christians then i thought it would be mocking the disabled then maybe the disastrous economy the revelation that he stole labor from every single one of his contractors his racism his hatred of women then maybe i thought it would be the epstein files would raping children be enough to end the christian support and the answer is no hatred runs deep fox news rush limbaugh hannity pulpits all over the country stoked the hatred and fear of the religious right until there weren t any values left just hate hatred of trans people hatred of brown people hatred of foreigners hatred of biden hatred of kamala hate hate hate so it didn t matter to his base as long as he stoked their hatred and now just like the bible predicted they are no longer able to judge good and evil it s demonic so now djt could come out and speak to the nation in pumps and full makeup wearing a negligee and his base would cheer and call it skilled negotiation he could strip naked and make out with jd vance while caroline leavett cheers and twirls her cross necklace in the name of jesus and his base would cheer and call him bold he could curse an entire people and threaten them with annihilation and his base would cheer that s right he did that one and they did and i used to think that no one would ever actually drop a nuclear bomb but now i m not sure at all perhaps this is what the bible means about it ending in fire and when the last of the bombs drop and the earth is annihilated and jesus comes again the religious right would clap and say at least he owned the libs hatred is strong this isn t natural 9 comments filed under uncategorized march 22 2026 2 14 pm god is light how god shines the light on who we are when god calls himself light he means that his very nature is to reveal it is inseparable from his being he reveals himself in all of creation he reveals himself in the souls of humankind and like light he reveals what lies in darkness he cannot not reveal for he cannot lie human lie humans have darkness in the heart and hidden places where they think they are unseen but god s nature is to reveal for he is light what we are seeing today which is so frightening to us is god s revelation not only of himself but also the darkness that lies in the hearts of evangelicalism god revealed the hearts of humans in the days of jesus he revealed their hurts to heal the illnesses to take away they pain and isolation to draw into community and he also reveals their darkness their hatred their schemes their vicious lusts he revealed himself to the woman caught in adultery and loved her he revealed the murder and lies in the heart of the leaders of the jews and they slunk away and plotted his death the heart of the huge evangelical corporate machine is revealed more so every day there is no depth that they have not already reached and will continue to reach the broken contracts and promises of reformed and presbyterian churches are being revealed every day donald trump is a revelation if those who claim the name of christ will open their eyes they will see their hearts revealed it is an ugly bloated lying lecherous contract breaking amoral psychopath that knows nothing of love beauty wisdom art or goodness the problem isn t the slug in the white house he is a mirror and that mirror is god s light shining on who we are look at your king america look at the natives you tortured and raped and slaughtered in his bloated face look at the enslaved image bearers you bullwhipped and traded like property to enrich yourself look at the totalitarian dictators you set up throughout the world impoverishing millions to rape their lands your golden ballroom and temu liberace decor in the oval office is a revelation of america the dignity is erased for we had none we tortured people of color we raped women and children we stole from the poor to enrich those that we already enriched and we called it the american dream and now the curtain is pulled away here is your god let s see if his bloated ugly corpse can save us in the day of trouble before we reap what we sow god is exposing us to the world will we move towards light and love and beauty and goodness or will we continue to rape and pillage and destroy after this nightmare is over we have a lot to rebuild may we rebuild far better than we built but maybe the first building has to come down leave a comment filed under uncategorized tagged as bible christianity faith god jesus march 15 2026 6 59 pm my truth remember when evangelicals would lose their minds over someone saying this is my truth they would holler about how this is a denial of absolute truth it was yet another culture war thing that wasn t a thing a gnat to be strained at while the camel is swallowed whole i lived it so i m telling you my truth the evangelical right claimed that the secular left would deny absolute truth by saying this is my truth as if the truth is different for everyone this they would claim would deny the absolute truth claims of christianity which demands our allegiance claiming that saying my truth is a denial of facts can only really be done by someone who has never met anyone outside of their own circle they heard it once in a sermon or read it in a blog and validated it because it upholds their own truth paradoxically when i claim my truth and am simply saying that my experiences of facts might be different than your experiences of facts when i want to hear your truth i want to hear how you experience the world your parents your family your life and i want to believe you i want to believe you because i know that you experience those things differently than i do a black man experiences a traffic stop differently than a white man a woman experiences a man on a hiking trail differently that i would as a man one sibling might experience their parents differently than other siblings maybe my experience of reformed churches is different than yours it is quite arrogant to assume that your experiences of traffic stops men on hiking trails and your parents is the absolute norm for all faith and practice for every person in every time frame i try to understand that people who stay within the proper boundaries and recite the proper theology and have the proper skin color and vote the right way might have a different experience of reformed churches than i do i ve never fit into a boys club don t brew my own beer don t like cigars don t like endless debates of theological minutiae that makes no difference to how we love our neighbor and don t draw within the lines i ask too many awkward questions so i know that i perceive reformed churches differently than someone who colors in the lines but my truth is still my truth i saw the hatred and fear and covenant breaking first hand some would experience a pastor as kindhearted and jovial others who dared ask a question that he couldn t answer might experience him as angry volatile and a bully one might experience a man as friendly and safe a child who has been raped by that same man might be triggered and shrink away in fear the only way that you can know someone is if you understand your biases and your experiences and truly listen to the truth as they have experienced it they might even use my truth to explain it it is not at all their intention to deny the facts of science or the truth claims of religion they are simply acknowledging that their experience might be different than yours their experience is still true if you have never experienced being stalked and molested by that particular elder in the church that doesn t mean that the elder does not stalk and molest people you might not experience trafficking and rape as a child by an elder but he may still be a trafficker and a rapist your parents might be kind and jovial and wise to the whole world and horrible to you your truth is still valid and that trauma sticks the man in dahmer s dungeon would experience dahmer differently than the clerk would at the supermarket here s the funny thing that took me far too long to realize people also experience the bible the same way and yes i believe in absolute truth i believe in truth and falsehood but absolute religious claims as true or false are shaped by our minds we have to approach god with the humility to say that maybe our biases are wrong maybe our experiences are shaping our reading so maybe we are approaching the text with a mindset that needs to be changed in order to understand it this is why we see dimly we haven t yet seen him face to face when we behold him we shall be like him and then and only then will we see clearly beware of anyone who says the scripture is clear especially if they are using the scripture to own slaves own women possess a harem steal from the poor lie and worship an idol if they are using the bible to hate and oppress and claim that the scripture is clear they are certainly reading bits and pieces through their own prejudices and anger for this reason christians have always confessed that the power of the holy spirit enlightening the heart is necessary for proper understanding he strips away our biases he takes the clouded judgment away and he gives us the humility to listen to those who do not share our experiences but we are used to dividing up and hurling anathemas at one another hundreds of denominations each one claiming that their own perceptions are correct and everyone else in the world is wrong one thing that radicalized me was realizing that god has had millions of people around the world since the beginning and maybe a tiny german reformed denomination of around 3 000 people doesn t actually have the monopoly on god s revelation and i do believe in truth but i am also aware of bias and trauma and pathologies so hold your opinions loosely listen to those with other viewpoints understand that you might be wrong about something and focus on what it means to love your neighbor as yourself it seems to me that is what it means to walk humbly with god one time monthly yearly make a one time donation make a monthly donation make a yearly donation choose an amount 5 00 15 00 100 00 5 00 15 00 100 00 5 00 15 00 100 00 or enter a custom amount your contribution is appreciated your contribution is appreciated your contribution is appreciated donate donate monthly donate yearly leave a comment filed under uncategorized march 5 2026 3 33 pm three years ago three years ago i have mixed feelings about this first this is the week that my former denomination would hold its annual meeting so those memories come up in my feed i remember how miserable those meetings were the horrible things that leaders of the church would say out loud the pride and entitlement that they didn t earn the hardened hearts and disregard of covenants for the last ten years i was just looking for an out i stayed too long but i kept thinking about the women and children still left there and the horrible things they were enduring and didn t want to abandon them and it is hard to break away from the church of your childhood then they tried me for false teaching without telling me what that false teaching was tore my congregation apart and left us to pick up the pieces there were a handful of families left who hadn t bent the knee to baal and we decided to sell the building and close the doors three years ago my wife and daughter and i said goodbye to my daughter my son in law and my grandchildren we had one last breakfast at their house and hugged and then left california for good this is where the mixed feelings come in i miss them intensely and still get choked up i had a few very close friends that went through the fire with me and i miss them so much it hurts but when i think about everything else we left there is a lightness in my heart and a spring in my step i see the old pictures of our meetings and shake my head i can t believe i sat through that garbage i can t believe i participated in it and i m so so glad i m out and i love our new town and our new community i get asked so many times about why i left california and it is always asked with a sort of hushed incredulous tone i left because after spending most of my life there and being born and raised there it wasn t home my niece told me a while back you were just in the wrong circles for the first time in my life i feel like i m home like i belong like this is where i fit i think she was right i know my old circles think that i m a far left liberal lunatic who has gone off the rails i know that they tell each other that i left the safety of the church and now i don t have any rails on my thinking i know that i am the topic of many conversations as a warning but i don t care those in the cave never understand the ones who got away those who are afraid that god will punish them if they step out of line will never understand a god who loves freely and unconditionally and calls us to freedom to release fear and suspicion and hatred of the other but those who got away understand completely they are my people a lot has happened in three years my thinking has become for firm and less dogmatic all at the same time the destruction caused by conservative reformed churches is reaching its peak and will burst soon for those who don t know pete hegseth is a member of a cult lead by doug wilson who has been corrupting reformed churches for thirty years those who think like wilson have his books on their bookracks in church and follow him were those who destroyed my congregation the breaking of covenants that i saw repeatedly in my denomination is now carried out internationally and is destabilizing the whole world this is one area that i really wish i wasn t right about but i had warned about it for years and then i see the architect of patriarchal rot standing in the pentagon preaching and i say i was right about this those who whisper in hushed tones about feminism like it is a dirty word those who crush the poor and the widow those who mock the orphan and the fatherless by the way in those circles a feminist is a woman who expressed disagreement with her husband or her male church leaders they believe that feminists must be defeated or society will fall apart but this rot will tear itself apart we live in similar times 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