Don’t try to tell them it will get better, to offer words of hope from a place that you might feel, but is beyond reach for them in that moment. Don’t act as if the grenade in their lives didn’t just go off.

Simple, heartfelt reflections on loss and suffering.

I finally free to question the tension between the idea of eternal conscious torment and my belief that God is loving and good. By iyree Jarrett

Maybe the destruction Jesus talks about is in this life and not the next

So we march. We stand up. We speak out. Because we love and serve a radical God who lead by example in caring for the weak against the strong by Kelley Barton

Statistically the Bible doesn’t represent people equally.

What I learned at a conference with post evangelicals about deconstructing systems along with theology and that the Bible was written to be read in community and not isolation by Kelley Barton

Jesus sets a clear mandate to love difficult people. But how do you do that

Jesus challenged how the religious folks looked at the Bible. They went to it looking for answers. They wanted to know what was right and wrong.

The Bible is not shy about using creative language for God.

Acceptance of the uncomfortable reality that nobody has a complete understanding of God and that there will always be questions and uncertainty by Kelley Barton and Bryce Gutierrez

I’ve had people tell me (Bill) that Paul’s idea in Romans 8:8 is a dangerous thought

I am biased by my humanity by Kelley Barton

Thinking about how Jesus FELT about people asking questions

What we did together, as a community, as we decorated the cross with flowers was so different. By Kelley Barton