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Tag: faith and doubt
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The Devil and Me
In retrospect, my earliest religious memories were not benign ones. They were not framed in pithy clichés about love or grace or cuddly predatory animals who lost their desire to eat you. They were framed in warning. I was four years old when I first asked my mum who Satan was. It was a question…
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To Know God Is To Leave Him
“Jamie! Wake up,” she whispered urgently, shaking my shoulder. “Do you hear them?” Half asleep, I groaned. “Hear what?” “The three ladies. They’re preaching the message of repent again.” She pulled back the curtains and peered out into the soft dawn light, her eyes searching the street with the intensity of someone expecting revelation. I…
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Love, Without Absolutes
There is a reason love so often becomes the final word. For Christians, for mystics, for those who speak of “spiritual truth” without quite knowing where to place it, love offers something uniquely consoling. It promises an essential coherence underlying the mess of things. It suggests that beneath suffering, contingency, and loss there is a…
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Mary and the Repair of a Male-Centred Order
I have begun to wonder whether the story of Mary functions less as a liberation of women, and more as a repair of a theological order that never fully trusted them. Christian tradition often presents her as the answer to Eve, the figure through whom disorder is undone and harmony restored. But the narrative anxiety…
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Not All Churches
I have a rule I make very few exceptions for. Don’t debate on social media. Ideas matter. But online, what rarely does is the way they are handled. Most exchanges are performances. Positions are staked, identities signalled, and lines drawn. The aim is seldom understanding. It is recognition. Applause. Survival. Social media rewards vociferousness without…
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When Sin Stops Being Ours
Sin is a word that carries weight in us, even when we struggle to say what it means. It arrives already freighted with warning, judgment, and the quiet implication that someone, somewhere, is standing just outside the circle. Even for those who no longer hold the beliefs that once gave the word its authority, it…
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More Than You Can Bear
Content Note: This essay discusses mental illness, suicidal ideation, and death. Please read with care. I’m Here… For Now “Do you have thoughts about harming yourself, or ending your life?” Her question cut directly to the reason I was there. Shifting in my chair, I searched for words precise enough to answer without exposing too…
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Mother, Son and Holy Ghost
Christianity depends on women’s bodies while disciplining them. From Eve to Mary, blood, birth, and blame shape the faith’s imagination. This essay traces how patriarchy became theology, and why any honest deconstruction must reckon with the women who carry the cost.
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The Body That Forgot Itself
A reflection on how modern Christianity’s fixation on private salvation has hollowed its moral life, leaving communities unaccountable for collective harm. This blog post challenges the church to rediscover corporate responsibility, remember the people it wounds, and reclaim a faith capable of honesty, repair, and genuine belonging.
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P.S. A Response To My Christian Friends
I know how this essay will be read by many Christians, because I once read others the same way. With concern. With defensiveness. With a quiet sense that something precious is being threatened. The instinct is not malicious. It is protective. Faith, for many, is not merely a set of propositions, but a moral compass,…
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