The systemization of God leads to harm being done to people in the areas of sexual ethics, emotional dependency, and communal justice. In the previous installmentof my two-part series on...
Emotional and Spiritual Abuse in the Church (I): the Divine Authority Syndrome
Emotional and spiritual abuse in the church often results from wrong ideas about how Divine Authority functions within the faith community. It is often wielded as a tool to suppress,...
Religious Trauma, Fundamentalism, Spiritual Abuse, Atheism, Bonhoeffer, Radical Theology and Other Topics I Write About
I address a number of topics on this website. My main concern is to be a theologian who makes the content of the Christian faith concrete and relevant for our...
“I Love Jesus But Not the Church” Means You’re On To Something
An article appeared a few days ago in the evangelical section of Patheos that really irked me. It has the rather nasty title: ‘I Love Jesus But Not the Church’...
What To Do When God is Unfaithful?
What To Do When God is Unfaithful We often talk about human unfaithfulness. Novels become bestsellers partly to the extent their plots involve the right amounts of betrayal, infidelity, and...