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have experienced a significant shift in my theology or faith perspective and find myself feeling disoriented and unsure.
I no longer believe God is angry and wants to punish me with pain (spiritual spanking, hell).
I do not believe God only loves and died to save a limited group of people. I believe God will redeem all of creation.
I believe the church advocating spanking children is abusive and I refuse to participate in a church that does support spanking.
I believe women can be pastors, ministers, and the leaders of the family.
I believe in a redemptive movement hermeneutic.
I believe Jesus is the revelation of who God is, and Jesus shows that he is not about vengeance, retribution, or punishment.
“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”
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“I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.”
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“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
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“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
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“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel
― The Ragamuffin Gospel
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