Forgiveness Is Not the Way Forward
Ezer – Spirituality and Church
by Bailey Steger
3y ago
I am relieved that Trump will be leaving office, but I am genuinely despondent that the majority of white Christians voted for Trump again, even after all the racist dog whistles and his bastardization of the Christian faith. We seemed to have learned nothing from this summer of visible and violent racism. Instead we are ready to “seek unity” and be embraced kindly across the aisle now that the so-called “Christian” candidate is no longer in power. I am writing this out for me and for those of you who recognize Trumpism as the idol it is, who are trying to figure out how to love one’s enemy ..read more
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Yes, Christian Americans: Jesus Wants You to Sacrifice Your Liberties
Ezer – Spirituality and Church
by Bailey Steger
4y ago
Hosanna, I was reminded on Palm Sunday, doesn’t mean hooray! It means Please save us. I forget this, because the Palm Sunday processional is such fun. We’re bouncing on our toes to keep warm as we wait outside the church. (It’s always miserable weather on Palm Sunday…except for this one time we’re all stuck at home in quarantine.) Our deacon is double-checking to make sure everyone’s got an oversized palm branch — and take a folded palm cross. Or two. Then we get the signal, and everyone starts marching or sashaying or traipsing around the parking lot, over the grass, across the sidewalk, awk ..read more
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What Happened During My Faith Deconstruction
Ezer – Spirituality and Church
by Bailey Steger
4y ago
My confirmation into the Episcopal ChurchI received this comment on my post about vocation after faith deconstruction. I’ve been meaning to write all this out, anyway, so I’ll answer M’s questions here. Help! I feel like I’m going through the same process you articulate here. I only just encountered the term “deconstruction” and I think that’s what’s about to happen to me. My faith has been “presenting itself as a mental illness” for a while now (I have to be Right About Everything or God will hate me), and I’m slowly realizing that a lot of my beliefs are inconsistent with each other and with ..read more
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Faith Is Not About Believing the Impossible
Ezer – Spirituality and Church
by Bailey Steger
5y ago
Impasse Saint-Eustache, Paris Just a thought I’m noodling on, from Marcus J. Borg’s book, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally: Fundamentalism has created so much cognitive dissonance between my faith and the things that I see with my own two eyes. So much so, that all I know about faith is that it’s about believing in impossible things. Isn’t that how people describe it? Faith is believing the impossible? I’m fine with believing in unproveable things. That sort of belief accepts humanity’s intellectual limitations and the universe’s mysterie ..read more
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