King of the Jungle- I am too your brother in Christ and that came off to me as dismissive, rude and un Christ like. I received my baptism, I receive communion every single Sunday and I do my best to follow in the ways of the Lord as made known in our brother Jesus. I am unapologetically liberal...
In my defense I was not attacking Catholicism as a whole or even Conservative Catholics. I was saying that many ex Christians come wounded from the conservative expression of Catholicism, from Evangelicalism and fundamentalism. I love many great things about Catholicism including the beauty of...
My highest love is for God and out of God's radically inclusive low for all humankind it makes me love all of God's children no matter who they are or where they find themselves on the journey of faith. My second love is my fiance and bride to be followed by family and friends.
I was raised an evangelical in the Conservative Baptist Church of America and the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS). I left both traditions at 16, found Unitarian Universalism at 18. My theology evolved from humanist to Pagan/Buddhist eclectic and ended up a Christian Universalist.I left the...
As a male feminist (and proud of it) I define feminism as the equality of men and women and working together to ensure freedom, equality and opportunity for both men and women.
As a Christian Universalist who was raised an evangelical in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the Conservative Baptist Association of America (CBA), I will give praise and criticism to the Evangelical movement.
I wanna reclaim the title evangelical as a positive label and embrace...
As a liberal Christian who was once an ex-Christian, I can give some insight as to why some people join the church alumni society. Many ex Christians were mistreated very badly at the hands of Conservative Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, or Conservative Catholicism and the narrow doctrines and...
Jesus to me as a prophet of God who was deeply attuned to God's presence and voice. He bore witness to God's extravagant inclusion and love and taught the people in the ways of justice and liberation. He died because he challenged the ways of Empire and welcomed those whom the Empire and...
God is not God's name. God is one of many we use to describe that which is beyond and yet present in each. As a liberal Christian I use the following names of God: Father, Mother, process, mystery, the Great I am, the still speaking, the still evolving, the still loving, Love, Creator, Redeemer...
Birth- Age 16 Raised in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the Conservative Baptist Association of America (CBA). At 16, I bid farewell to conservative evangelicalism/fundamentalism and joined the ""Church alumni society".
At age 18 I found Unitarian Universalism (UUA)- I felt...
I currently have an affiliation with the United Church of Christ (UCC). My current church is small and growing, a church that is very ecumenical with strong interfaith outreach. We are theological liberal and diverse. Our worship style is more blended contemporary with a contemplative element...
There is only race and that is humanity. My ethnic background is a Heinz 57 European (Italian, German, British, Dutch) with Cherokee. So I'm European and indigenous.
I'm a vocalist. I sing high tenor to mezzo soprano. I sing in church and school choirs.
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CSUSB Concert Choir- Let Everything that Hath Breath - YouTube
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Detour Ahead - YouTube
Unfortunately since the Fundamentalist takeover of the SBC in '79 God's gay, lesbian, bi, transgender, queer or questioning children have made to feel un-welcomed in Southern Baptist Churches or other Baptist churches in that tradition. The culture in many of these churches is a "don't ask don't...